How the Composition of Siblings Affects Child Health Quality
| Thesis title in Czech: | Jaký vliv má struktura sourozenců na kvalitu dětského zdraví? |
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| Thesis title in English: | How the Composition of Siblings Affects Child Health Quality |
| Key words: | zdravie dieťaťa, štruktúra súrodencov, alokácia zdrojov v domácnosti, investície do ľudského kapitálu |
| English key words: | child health, sibling structure, allocation of household resources, human capital investment |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2011/2012 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES) |
| Supervisor: | doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned by the advisor |
| Date of registration: | 05.06.2012 |
| Date of assignment: | 05.06.2012 |
| Date and time of defence: | 10.09.2013 00:00 |
| Venue of defence: | IES |
| Date of electronic submission: | 06.08.2013 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 10.09.2013 |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Aleš Čornanič |
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| References |
| - Rohini P. Pande . Selective gender differences in childhood nutrition and immunization in rural India: The role of siblings (http://www.springerlink.com/content/m7683825440423n7/)
- Ashish Garg; Jonathan Morduch. Sibling rivalry and the gender gap: Evidence from child health outcomes in Ghana (http://www.springerlink.com/content/lbermxk1ly7p1cwc/fulltext.pdf) - Joy Adamson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Nish Chaturvedi, Jenny Donovan. Ethnicity, socio-economic position and gender—do they affect reported health—care seeking behaviour? (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953602004586) - Judith Blake. Family size and the quality of children (http://www.springerlink.com/content/m42764u76j36781x/) - Lois M. Verbrugge. Gender and Health: An Update on Hypotheses and Evidence (http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2136750?uid=3737856&uid=2&uid=4&sid=56230501103) - Gary S. Becker, Nigel Thomes. Child Endownments and the Quality and Quantity of Children. (http://www.tau.ac.il/~yashiv/becker.pdf) - Barbara L. Wolfe, Jere R. Behrman. Determinants of child mortality, health, and nutrition in a developing country (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304387882900025) |
| Preliminary scope of work |
| Čím je ovplyvňované detské zdravie je v rozvojových krajinách dôležitá otázka, pretože to indikuje aktuálne socioekonomické blaho krajiny. Je známe, že štruktúra rodiny má vplyv na zdravie. Vo svoje bakárskej práci sa budem venovať otázke ako kompozícia súrodencov ovplyvňuje zdravie dieťaťa. Budem skúmať ako pohlavie, pomer sestier, poradie narodenia a počet súrodencov v rodine, prekonané choroby a ďalšie premenné ovplyvňujú zdravie dieťaťa. Hlavná časť prezentovanej bakalárskej práce bude zameraná na empirický výskum vybraných Ázijských krajín použitím dát z Demographic and Health Survey. K analýze bude použitý Probitový model. V poslednej časti prípadne vzniknuté rozdiely budú diskutované.
Hypotézy: V tomto štádiu výskumu sa vyskytlo viacero možných otázok, ktoré by mohli byť následne skúmané. Medzi tie najdôležitejšie patria: 1. Ako vplýva pohlavie na zdravie dieťaťa? 2: Ako vplýva pomer sestier na zdravie dieťaťa? 3. Ako vplýva poradie narodenia na zdravie dieťaťa? Metodológia: Probitový model Štruktúra práce: 1. Úvod 2. Teoretické pozadie 3. Prehľad 4. Špecifikácia modelu 5. Interpretácia výsledkov 6. Zhrnutie 7. Záver |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| What determines child health, namely mortality, nutrition and medical treatment received, is an important question in developing countries, since it indicates current socio-economic welfare. It is known that family structure affects health. The aim of the present bachelor thesis is to determine the effects of sibling's composition on child health quality. The role of gender, age, birth order, number of siblings (sisters and brothers might show significantly different results) and other explanatory variables effect on health and child mortality within the family will be examined. The core of the thesis will be an empirical study of chosen Asian countries using data from the Demographic and Health Survey. For these analyses, the Probit regression model will be used. Within the results, chosen countries will be compared, and the occurring differences will be explained.
Hypotheses: At this early stage of research, there are several questions that might come up. The most important of them are: 1. How the gender affects health of the child? 2. How the number of sisters affects health of the child? 3. How the birth order affects health of the child? Methodology: Probit regression model Outline: 1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Countries Overview 4. Data and Methodology 5. Empirical Results 6. Summary 7. Conclusion |