We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the effect of boy preference on girls’ physical health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Employing an instrumental variable approach and data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies, we find that the presence of...

We propose a novel apples-to-apples comparison strategy to identify the causal effect of son preference on child physical health from endogenous sibling gender composition. Using first-born boy ratio within a community as an instrument and data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies, we find that...

The literature remains divided on the impact of governance on migration. This paper aims to contribute to this debate by examining the effect of corruption, along with other governance qualities, on brain drain using data from 130 countries. To address the issue of endogeneity, we utilize a...

This paper attempts to identify neighborhood peer effects on children's dropout decision in rural China using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data (CHNS). Identifying peer effect is complicated by several endogenity problems including “self-selection” problem, “reflective” problem...