<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wu, Xiaoyu;  *Li, Lixing</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Family size and maternal health: evidence from the One-Child policy in China</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Population Economics</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Family size and maternal health: evidence from the One-Child policy in China</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maternal health; Quantity-quality tradeoff; One-Child policy</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012/10</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1341-1364</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0933-1433</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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's quantity and mother's &quot;quality&quot; is through a budget constraint mechanism, that is, having more children decreases the resource allocated to mothers and affects their health outcomes.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><custom7><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">000305526500008</style></custom7><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1341</style></section></record></records></xml>