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The only child, birth order and educational outcomes
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal ; ISSN: 1864-6042 ; Volume: 13 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 2019-28 ; Pages: 1-24 ; Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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only child
personality traits
educational outcomes
parent-child relationship
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lao, Yehui
Dong, Zhiqiang
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Veröffentlichung
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
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Kiel
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-28
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Lao, Yehui
- Dong, Zhiqiang
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
Time of origin
- 2019
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