Guodong, CHEN; Xiaoyan, LEI - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 4 (2009) 4, pp. 601-616
Using the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we try to identify the effect that quantity of children has on the health statuses of elderly parents. After dealing with a potential endogeneity problem using instrumental variable estimation, we find no significant long-arm “fertility...