much different contexts than the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in which the vast majority of children globally … parents’ schooling and their children’s schooling in the most populous LMIC, using adult identical (monozygotic, MZ) twins … data from urban China. Our ordinary least-squares estimates show that one-year increases in maternal and parental schooling …

growth and schooling investments and returns. Using data from two surveys of twins in the People's Republic of China and …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects …