Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/287201 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
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[Journal:] Population Research and Policy Review [ISSN:] 1573-7829 [Volume:] 41 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer Netherlands [Place:] Dordrecht [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 317-342
Publisher: 
Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
Abstract: 
Evidence on a causal link between family size and children's education is still inconclusive. Recent empirical studies have focused heavily on China, exploiting for identification the country's One-Child Policy (OCP) as an exogenous source of variation in the number of offspring. This literature, however, suffers from measurement error in the key policy variable (individual OCP coverage) and the use of inadequate measures of child quality outcomes (educational attainment). Using a novel and more accurate taxonomy of provincial OCP regulations and studying exclusively post-compulsory schooling outcomes of children that are subject to parental discretion, we find evidence for a sizeable child quantity–quality trade-off in China. Various robustness checks corroborate this conclusion.
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Family size
Education
One-Child Policy
Quantity–Quality Trade-Off
JEL: 
J13
J18
I2
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