Fertility and the health of children: A nonparametric investigation

Daniel Henderson (), Daniel Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter and Le Wang

A chapter in Modelling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, pp 167-195 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship is limited. This chapter applies a recently developed nonparametric estimator of the conditional local average treatment effect to assess the sensitivity of the quantity–quality trade-off to functional form and parametric assumptions. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and controlling for the potential endogeneity of fertility, we find mixed evidence supporting the trade-off.

Date: 2008
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