transfers to multiple children incorporating favoritism, altruism and guilt, we show the conditions under which guilt and … altruism can be separately identified by experimental variation in parental time with children. Based on within-twins estimates … of affected cohorts, we find that parents selected children with lower endowments to be sent down; that parents behaved …

worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The … with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …