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

Nancy Qian

No 14973, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: I20 J13 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05
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