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Title: Early Childhood Investments and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off

Author(s): Chinhui Juhn, Yona Rubinstein and Andrew Zuppann

Publication Date: July 2020

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Programme Area(s): Development Economics and Labour Economics

Abstract: We integrate key insights from the early childhood literature into the quantity-quality model. In theory the adverse effect of shocks to family size diminishes with birth spacing for children already born and rises for newborn siblings. The effect on the older child therefore provides a credible proxy for the quantity-quality trade-off only at short spacing intervals. Using matched mother-child data from NLSY79, we find robust empirical support for this proposition. Cognitive scores of children already born drop following shocks to family size but only when siblings arrive at younger ages. Family resources also matter. The cognitive scores of children drop only in households in which the mother has below median AFQT score.

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Juhn, C, Rubinstein, Y and Zuppann, A. 2020. 'Early Childhood Investments and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15032