Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational … attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks …. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey … data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from …

Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational … attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks …. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey … data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks …. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey … data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We find that, compared with a twin sibling who did not suffer from …