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 …

second child. Next, I show that the increase in family size caused by this relaxation in the One Child Policy increased …

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 …