Replication data for: The Importance of Being Wanted
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Quy-Toan Do; Tung D. Phung
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Project Citation:
Do, Quy-Toan, and Phung, Tung D. Replication data for: The Importance of Being Wanted. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2010. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113768V1
Project Description
Summary:
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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 benefiting from a more favorable growth environment. (JEL J12, J13, O15, P23, Z13)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
P23 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
P23 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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