@article {11397,
	title = {Family size and maternal health: evidence from the One-Child policy in China},
	journal = {Journal of Population Economics},
	volume = {25},
	year = {2012},
	month = {2012/10},
	pages = {1341-1364},
	chapter = {1341},
	abstract = {In this paper, we examine the impact of family size on maternal health outcomes by exploiting the tremendous change in family size under the One-Child policy in China. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 1993-2006, we find that mothers with fewer children have a higher calorie intake and a lower probability of being underweight and having low blood pressure; meanwhile, they have a higher probability of being overweight. This would occur if a smaller family size increases the food consumption of mothers, leading underweight women to attain a normal weight and normal weight women becoming overweight. Robust tests are performed to provide evidence on the hypothesis that the tradeoff between children{\textquoteright}s quantity and mother{\textquoteright}s "quality" is through a budget constraint mechanism, that is, having more children decreases the resource allocated to mothers and affects their health outcomes.},
	keywords = {Maternal health; Quantity-quality tradeoff; One-Child policy},
	isbn = {0933-1433},
	doi = {10.1007/s00148-011-0361-0},
	author = {Wu, Xiaoyu;  *Li, Lixing}
}
