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Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

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Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analía
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Abstract
This paper presents evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off using quasi-experimental variation due to twin births and preferences for a mixed sibling-sex composition, as well as ethnic differences in the effects of these variables. Our sample includes groups with very high fertility. An innovation in our econometric approach is the juxtaposition of results from multiple instrumental variables (IV) strategies, capturing the effects of fertility over different ranges for different sorts of people. To increase precision, we develop an estimator that combines different instrument sets across partially-overlapping parity-specific sub-samples. Our results are remarkably consistent in showing no evidence of a quantity-quality trade-off.
Date issued
2010-10
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61947
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Journal
Journal of Labor Economics
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
Angrist, Joshua, Victor Lavy, and Analia Schlosser. “Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children.” Journal of Labor Economics 28.4 (2010): 773-824.
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0734-306X

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