| Abstract: |
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. |