'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
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34297