Do only children have poor vision? Evidence from China's One-Child Policy

This paper examines whether only children have poor vision by exploiting the quasinatural experiment generated by the Chinese One‐Child Policy. The results suggest that being an only child increases the incidence of myopia by 9.1 percentage points. We further investigate the mechanisms through which...

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Main Authors: Zhao, Liqiu, Zhou, Minghai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51604/