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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Angrist, Joshua, Lavy, Victor, Schlosser, Analía
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61947
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956