The only child, birth order and educational outcomes

Abstract: The one-child policy was implemented in September 1980 and abolished in late 2015. With this change in the demographic policy, the fertility decision of families also changed. Such decisions can result in an increase in the number of siblings in a family. Individuals' educational outcomes may be affected by a change in their parents' fertility decision. The objective of this paper is to provide evidence of the difference of educational outcomes between the only-child and the non-only child. The authors try to estimate the change of educational outcomes when the only child of a family turns to the child with siblings. Moreover, they estimate different channels to interpret these effects. They employ the data set of China Education Panel data in this paper. In the part of mechanism check, the Sobel-Good test is used for checking the mediation effects of different channels. The authors found the only child has significant higher educational outcomes comparing to a child who has siblings. To explain these effects, the authors use four channels to interpret: (1) money resource, (2) parenting time, (3) closeness of parent-child relationships, and (4) personality traits. The policy implication is to help the policymaker estimate and predict the impact of new demographic policy.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
The only child, birth order and educational outcomes ; volume:13 ; number:1 ; year:2019 ; extent:25
Economics / Journal articles. Journal articles ; 13, Heft 1 (2019) (gesamt 25)

Creator
Lao, Yehui
Dong, Zhiqiang

DOI
10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-28
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412131022195.426592041880
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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