The Importance of Being Wanted

• Tác giả: Quy-Toan Do
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 157.3 [Unassigned]
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312149
• Chủ đề: 1. Domestic Abuse J120; 2. Family Structure; 3. Fertility; 4. Marital Dissolution; 5. Marriage

Tóm tắt

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 months of schooling. The Vietnamese horoscope being gender-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning. Children born in auspicious years are more likely to have been planned, thus benefitting from a more favorable growth environment.