Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy:The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China

作者: Nancy Qian

DOI: 10.3386/W14973

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摘要: Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits plausibly exogenous changes family size caused by relaxations China's One Child Policy estimate causal effect on school enrollment first child. The results show for one-child families, an additional child significantly increased first-born approximately 16 percentage-points. is larger households where are same sex.

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