文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Family size, birth order and educational attainment: Evidence from China

作者：Weng, Qian[1];Gao, Xia[2];He, Haoran[3];Li, Shi[3]

第一作者：Weng, Qian

通讯作者：He, HR[1]

机构：[1]Renmin Univ China, Sch Labor & Human Resources, 59 Zhongguancun St, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China;[2]Henan Univ Econ & Law, Sch Econ, 1 Jinshui East Rd, Zhangzhou 450000, Peoples R China;[3]Beijing Normal Univ, Business Sch, 19 Xinjiekouwai St, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China

第一机构：Renmin Univ China, Sch Labor & Human Resources, 59 Zhongguancun St, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Beijing Normal Univ, Business Sch, 19 Xinjiekouwai St, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China.

年份：2019

卷号：57

外文期刊名：CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW

收录：;Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85072222560);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000492799500020)】；

基金：We thank the anonymous reviewer, Xuan Chen, Chuliang Luo, John Strauss, Fei Wang, Liqiu Zhao, Junsen Zhang and participants in the two Chinese Household Income Project workshops, 2016 ICID/IZA/Renmin University/UCW Workshop, and China Labor Economists Forum 2017 annual meeting for helpful discussions and comments on this paper. Financial support from Overseas Talents Research Start-up Funds of Renmin University of China, the MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Project No. 18YJA790032), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Project No. 9192013), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Projects No. 71503255 & 71973016) is gratefully acknowledged. All remaining errors are those of the authors.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Education; Family planning; Quantity-quality tradeoff; Birth order

摘要：Using Chinese Household Income Project survey data from 2013, this paper investigates the effects of family size and birth order on children's educational attainment. The endogeneity of family size is an important identification issue in the test of the quantity-quality tradeoff. We use variations in a mother's exposure to various phases of China's family planning policies by Hukou type, ethnicity and regional differences in fine rates as instruments to identify the causal effects of family size. We find that family size has a negative effect on children's education. Using family fixed effects model, we find a positive birth order effect. In addition, both the family size and birth order effects are more pronounced for families where first-born children are females than those where the first-borns are males. Birth order effect is more evident in financially constrained families.