support to parents. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, I find that parents invested nearly … twice more in sons than in daughters in terms of college education spending and marriage gifts value. Conversely, parents … instrumental variable strategy are employed to control for the potential endogeneity of parental investments in children. The …

exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at … senior age, e.g. having one more child significantly reduces post-retirement aged rural parents' probability of working by 12 ….8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension …

unstudied. This study is the first to analyze heterogeneous intergenerational effects of children's education on parents' mental … schooling reforms. Increasing children's education reduces parents' long-term probability of developing depression. Fathers and …

square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally …

In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …

the bias and estimate bounds on the true parameter. …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we … demonstrate the nature and size of the bias in the twin-IV estimator of the quantity-quality trade-off and estimate bounds on the …

–quality trade-off, we demonstrate the nature of the bias and estimate bounds on the true parameter. …