plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

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 …

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an … increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law … of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the timing of school enrollment to control for the impact of …