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The Importance of Being Wanted

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  • Quy-Toan Do

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Birth wantedness is identified as a source of better child outcomes. Vietnam, the country of interest in this study, offers a peculiar cultural setting that will allow addressing the above issue. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. Thus, there can be identified a sharp fertility response, whereby years that are considered auspicious have significantly large cohorts. This study observes that the Vietnamese horoscope is largely gender specific. Accordingly the observed schooling differences are not due to the accuracy of the horoscope or being self-fulfilling, but rather to birth planning: children born in auspicious years are more likely to planned by their parents, thus benefitting from a more favorable growth environment. This study also tries to disentangle the difference between child endowment channel and birth plannedness channel. [BREAD WP no. 225]

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  • Quy-Toan Do, 2009. "The Importance of Being Wanted," Working Papers id:2015, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2015
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