The quantity-quality trade-off of children in a developing country: Identification using Chinese twins | |
Li, Hongbin ; Zhang, Junsen ; Zhu, Yl | |
2010-05-11 ; 2010-05-11 | |
关键词 | EARLY-CHILDHOOD NUTRITION FAMILY-SIZE NATURAL EXPERIMENT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS BASIC EDUCATION RURAL CHINA BIRTH-ORDER FERTILITY Demography |
中文摘要 | Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, we examine the effect of family size on child educational attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth order effect. We then instrument family size by the exogenous variation that is induced by a twin birth and find a negative effect of family size on children education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China, where the public education system is poor. Given that our estimates of the effect of having twins on nontwins at least provide the lower bound of the true effect of family size, these findings suggest a quantity-quality trade-off for children in developing countries. |
语种 | 英语 ; 英语 |
出版者 | POPULATION ASSOC AMER ; WASHINGTON ; 1722 N ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/26154] ![]() |
专题 | 清华大学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Hongbin,Zhang, Junsen,Zhu, Yl. The quantity-quality trade-off of children in a developing country: Identification using Chinese twins[J],2010, 2010. |
APA | Li, Hongbin,Zhang, Junsen,&Zhu, Yl.(2010).The quantity-quality trade-off of children in a developing country: Identification using Chinese twins.. |
MLA | Li, Hongbin,et al."The quantity-quality trade-off of children in a developing country: Identification using Chinese twins".(2010). |
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