'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban

We analyze the trade-off between child quantity and child quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child’s education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a munici...

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Main Authors:	Dumas, Christelle, Lefranc, Arnaud
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
Subjects:	FERTILITY FAMILY SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT QUANTITY-QUALITY TRADE-OFF CONTRACEPTIVE BAN FAMILY PLANNING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34297

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spelling	okr-10986-342972021-05-25T10:54:38Z 'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban Dumas, Christelle Lefranc, Arnaud FERTILITY FAMILY SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT QUANTITY-QUALITY TRADE-OFF CONTRACEPTIVE BAN FAMILY PLANNING We analyze the trade-off between child quantity and child quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child’s education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal ban on modern contraceptives. Since other comparable cities in the Manila metropolitan area were not affected by the ban, this allows us to implement a difference-in-difference estimation of the effect on family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban. Our results indicate that the contraceptive ban led to a significant increase in family size. They also provide evidence of a quality-quantity trade-off: increased family size led to a sizable decrease in educational attainment. 2020-08-06T20:32:58Z 2020-08-06T20:32:58Z 2019-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34297 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article East Asia and Pacific Philippines
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topic	FERTILITY FAMILY SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT QUANTITY-QUALITY TRADE-OFF CONTRACEPTIVE BAN FAMILY PLANNING
spellingShingle	FERTILITY FAMILY SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT QUANTITY-QUALITY TRADE-OFF CONTRACEPTIVE BAN FAMILY PLANNING Dumas, Christelle Lefranc, Arnaud 'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
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description	We analyze the trade-off between child quantity and child quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child’s education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal ban on modern contraceptives. Since other comparable cities in the Manila metropolitan area were not affected by the ban, this allows us to implement a difference-in-difference estimation of the effect on family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban. Our results indicate that the contraceptive ban led to a significant increase in family size. They also provide evidence of a quality-quantity trade-off: increased family size led to a sizable decrease in educational attainment.
format	Journal Article
author	Dumas, Christelle Lefranc, Arnaud
author_facet	Dumas, Christelle Lefranc, Arnaud
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title	'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
title_short	'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
title_full	'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
title_fullStr	'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
title_full_unstemmed	'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
title_sort	'sex in marriage is a divine gift'? evidence on the quantity-quality trade-off from the manila contraceptive ban
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'Sex in Marriage Is a Divine Gift'? Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off from the Manila Contraceptive Ban

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