The Importance of Being Wanted
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have two extra...
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| Language: | EN |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5669 |