Housing wealth, fertility and children's health in China: A regression discontinuity design

Geer Ang, Ya Tan, Yingjia Zhai, Fan Zhang and Qinghua Zhang

Journal of Health Economics, 2024, vol. 97, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of housing wealth on fertility outcomes through a regression discontinuity design based on a 2006 Chinese housing-market policy. Our analysis reveals that the positive impact of this policy on housing wealth significantly enhances the likelihood of fertility by 7.3 %. Our result implies that a 1 % increase in housing wealth can raise the fertility rate by 0.18 %. Furthermore, we observe that children born subsequent to the positive housing wealth shock exhibit improved health, not only at birth but also over the long term. Lastly, we present suggestive evidence suggesting that both parental pre-birth time allocation and parental health may help explain the documented positive effects of housing wealth on fertility rates.

Keywords: Housing wealth; Fertility; Time allocation; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 O18 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102915

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