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 …

focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. … began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises … respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …