Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker … between child quantity and quality, is still inconclusive. Recent empirical studies have focused heavily on China, exploiting … provincial OCP regulations and studying exclusively post-compulsory schooling outcomes of children that are subject to parental …

in family size or the sex composition of the first two children as an instrument for family size with mixed results. We … exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced …Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a …

in family size or the sex composition of the first two children as an instrument for family size with mixed results. We … exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced …Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

With reference to substantial fall in fertility among illiterate women and rising of child schooling in India …