The Importance of Being Wanted
Published By: BREAD on eSS | Published Date: February, 02 , 2010We 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 2 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. [BREAD Working Paper No. 225]
Author(s): Quy-Toan Do, Tung Duc Phung | Posted on: Jun 02, 2010 | Views(1249) | Download (824)