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Gastos de consumo de las familias y el costo de los niños

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  • Rodríguez Biasone, Juan Ignacio

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Esta investigación es de tipo explicativo, y su objetivo general es analizar el costo para las familias que se deriva de la incorporación de niños al hogar. Para ello, se estiman las escalas de equivalencia que miden el monto de ingresos requerido para mantener constante la participación de los bienes de adultos en el presupuesto del hogar, a medida que aumenta el número de hijos en el hogar de referencia. La metodología utilizada se basa en el modelo de Rothbarth, que identifica los gastos del hogar en bienes consumidos sólo por los adultos para cuantificar el costo de los niños a través de la reducción en esos gastos que un hogar con niños realiza para cubrir las necesidades que éstos suponen, respecto de los que exhibe un hogar sin niños. Para estudiar el gasto en bienes de adultos, se hace uso del método de Heckman. Los datos, fuente de las estimaciones, provienen de la Encuesta Nacional de Gastos de los Hogares (ENGHo) 2012- 13, realizada en Argentina por el INDEC. Se estiman escalas de equivalencia para hogares, distinguiendo por la presencia de uno, dos y tres menores hasta 14 años de edad. Los resultados indican que las escalas de equivalencia estimadas se incrementan a medida que aumenta la cantidad de niños en el hogar, y que son mayores para los hogares con un adulto, en comparación con aquellos hogares con dos adultos. Adicionalmente, para una misma cantidad de niños en el hogar, las escalas de equivalencia son mayores cuando los niños pertenecen a diferentes rangos etarios y cuando los niños son de distinto sexo.

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  • Rodríguez Biasone, Juan Ignacio, 2019. "Gastos de consumo de las familias y el costo de los niños," Nülan. Deposited Documents 3150, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Centro de Documentación.
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