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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qian, Nancy.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14973.

NBER working paper series no. w14973

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Print version record

May 2009.