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The timing of childbearing : the role of human capital and personal preferences
Lien, Hsien-Ming; Wang, Ping - In: Journal of macroeconomics 49 (2016), pp. 247-264
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707841
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Population Control Policies and Human Capital Investment : China's One-Child Policy Revisited
Wang, Bob - 2015
reduction in fertility would contribute to Chinese human capital enhancement. However, the quantity-quality tradeoff may be not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023748
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The quantity-quality fertility-education trade-off : policies to reduce fertility in developing countries generally boost education levels, but only slightly
Liu, Haoming - 2015
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430732
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346051
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"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": for whom? : evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban
Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2013
We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774345
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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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 twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577906