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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336961
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345401
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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China
Li, Hongbin - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015013
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The child quantity-quality trade-off
Guo, Rufei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2022
the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186743
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822059
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611320
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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China: Identification based on the difference-in-differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285513
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The Effect of the One-Child Policy on Fertility in China: Identification Based on the Differences-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics - 2005
This paper measures the effect of China's one-child policy on fertility by exploring the natural experiment that has …-in-differences estimator to identify the effect of the policy on fertility. Such a natural experiment is a rare opportunity, whether for the … analysis of the effect on fertility or for the analysis of economics in general. Using two rounds of the Chinese Population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069777
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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China : identification based on the difference-in-differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy on the increase in sex ratios by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989746
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country : Identification Using Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776068