Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines 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 …

zero. One interpretation of these results is that the OLS Party premium is due to omitted ability and family background …

. As a parallel development, empirical studies exploit multiple sources of exogenous variations in family size, such as … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful … negative impact seems to operate by altering bargaining power within the family and the opportunity cost of having children …