Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility: Evidence from China’s Population Control Policies

Yongkun Yin ()

Working Papers from CEMFI

Abstract: This paper examines how the number of siblings that parents have affects their fertility decisions. I exploit the population control policies in China, which affected individuals unequally across birth cohorts and regions. The exogenous variation in fertility is used to identify the effect of the number of siblings on the number of children for the next generation. The results show that a couple tends to have 0.068 more children (4.3% of the average number of children) and is 5.6 percentage points more likely to violate the One-Child Policy (19.4% of the violation rate) if the husband and the wife have one more sibling each. Moreover, the effect on fertility is stronger for couples in rural areas where the One-Child Policy was enforced less strictly. I also show that ideal family size, especially that of the wife, is an important channel through which the number of siblings affects fertility.

Keywords: Intergenerational transmission; fertility; siblings; preference formation; population policies; China. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 J13 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11
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