"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": For whom ? Evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban

Christelle Dumas () and Arnaud Lefranc

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Abstract: We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal ban on modern contraceptives. Since other comparable cities in the Manila metropolitan area were not affected by the ban, this allows us to implement a difference-in-difference estimation of the effect of family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban. Our results indicate that the contraceptive ban led to a significant increase in family size. They also provide evidence of a quality-quantity tradeoff: increased family size led to a sizable decrease in school performance.

Keywords: Philippines; quantity-quality tradeoff; human capital investment; family size; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in World Bank Economic Review, 2016, ⟨10.1093/wber/lhw055⟩

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Working Paper: "Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For whom ? Evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban (2013)
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DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw055

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