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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country : identification using Chinese twins

Li, Hongbin (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor); … - 2007

attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …

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Early life health interventions and academic achievement

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine V.; Neilson, … - 2012

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...

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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes

Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Risk aversion and son preference : experimental evidence from Chinese twin parents

Chew, Soo-Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017

We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...

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How does the beauty of wives affect post-marriage family outcomes? : Helen's face in Chinese households

Zhang, Junsen; Fei, Shulan; Wen, Yanbing - 2023

-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful …

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