TY  - JOUR
AU  - Qian,Nancy
TI  - Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy:The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14973
PY  - 2009
Y2  - May 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14973
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14973.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Nancy Qian
Department of Economics
Yale University
27 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520-8269
E-Mail: nancy.qian@yale.edu
AB  - Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits 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 households where the children are of the same sex.
ER  -