and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …

effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …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 …