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The Quantity-Quality Trade-Off of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins

Demography, 2008-02, Vol.45 (1), p.223-243 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Population Association of America ;Population Association of America 2008 ;Copyright Population Association of America Feb 2008 ;Copyright © 2008 Population Association of America ;ISSN: 0070-3370 ;EISSN: 1533-7790 ;DOI: 10.1353/dem.2008.0006 ;PMID: 18390301 ;CODEN: DMGYAH

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Title:
The Quantity-Quality Trade-Off of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Author: Li, Hongbin ; Zhang, Junsen ; Zhu, Yi
Subjects: 9130 ; 9179 ; Age ; Asia & the Pacific ; Bias ; Birth control ; Birth order ; Births ; Child ; Childbirth ; Children ; Children & youth ; China ; Contraception ; Demographic indicators ; Demographic research ; Demography ; Developing Countries ; Education ; Educational attainment ; Educational Status ; Enrollments ; Experiment/theoretical treatment ; Families & family life ; Family Characteristics ; Family size ; Female ; Gender ; Geography ; Humans ; Junior high schools ; LDCs ; Male ; Medicine/Public Health ; Parents ; Parents & parenting ; Population ; Population Economics ; Public Policy ; Public schools ; Residence Characteristics ; Rural areas ; Rural Population ; Social Sciences ; Sociology ; Studies ; Twins ; Urban Population ; Variables
Is Part Of: Demography, 2008-02, Vol.45 (1), p.223-243
Description: Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, we examine the effect of family size on child educational attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth order effect. We then instrument family size by the exogenous variation that is induced by a twin birth and find a negative effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China, where the public education system is poor. Given that our estimates of the effect of having twins on nontwins at least provide the lower bound of the true effect of family size, these findings suggest a quantity-quality trade-off for children in developing countries.
Publisher: New York: Population Association of America
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0070-3370
EISSN: 1533-7790
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2008.0006
PMID: 18390301
CODEN: DMGYAH
Source: MEDLINE
PubMed Central
ProQuest Central

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The Quantity-Quality Trade-Off of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins

Copyright Population Association of America ;Population Association of America 2008 ;Copyright Population Association of America Feb 2008 ;Copyright © 2008 Population Association of America ;ISSN: 0070-3370 ;EISSN: 1533-7790 ;DOI: 10.1353/dem.2008.0006 ;PMID: 18390301 ;CODEN: DMGYAH

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