Replication Package for Chinese Household Education Investment Under Fertility Policy

Replication package for a 2026 paper examining how anticipated fertility shapes household educational investment decisions in China. The package includes code and supporting data files on schools, income, expenditure, and One-Child Policy exemptions, requiring Stata 17 or newer and R 4.2 or newer. Author Eva Raiber published the package via the Economic Development and Cultural Change Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric analysis of educational investment based on policy exemption variation.
• Analyze household expenditure patterns on education using supporting income and spending data.
• Study regional policy effects using province mapping data.
• Validate the paper's findings by reproducing its tables and figures.

Strengths

• Includes all code required to reproduce the paper's tables and figures.
• Provides supporting data files on schools, income, expenditure, and policy exemptions.
• Associated with a specific 2026 academic paper, providing clear research context.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The core China Family Panel Studies 2010 microdata are not included and must be sourced separately.

Provenance

Source

Economic Development and Cultural Change Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and other official sources for replication.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 21:22:40; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China, with province-level variation.