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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children

Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor) - 2006

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker...

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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...

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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...

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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

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Migration, child education, human capital accumulation, and a brain dilution tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing additional free educational services …

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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...

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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022

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Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

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Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

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