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

Autor:	Analia Schlosser, Joshua D. Angrist, Victor Lavy
Přispěvatelé:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics, Angrist, Joshua
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics media_common.quotation_subject Instrumental variable Ethnic group Estimator Fertility Sample (statistics) Variation (linguistics) Industrial relations Economics Econometrics Quality (business) Sibling media_common
Zdroj:	MIT web domain
ISSN:	1537-5307 0734-306X
DOI:	10.1086/653830
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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