Household Economic Transformation and Recent Fertility in Emerging Market Economies: China and Vietnam Compared
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What propels certain households to adopt new forms of economic activity? We address this question in a comparative analysis of households in four contexts of economic development and market transition--rural and urban China, and rural and urban Vietnam. Using three multi-wave household surveys conducted in Vietnam and China during the 1990s we estimate a series of longtunidinal logistic regression models that predict change in household economic activity over time. Our results indicate that recent births lead to increased household entrepreneurship and sectoral diversification across rural and urban areas of China and Vietnam. By comparison, the birth of a child is not associated with an increase or decrease in the likelihood of wage sector involvement at the level of the household. The results suggest that fertility does not retard household-level development, but rather is associated with innovative, positively transformative activity in these contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
JOUR
Korinek, Kim
Chen, Feinian
Alva, Soumya
Entwisle, Barbara
2006
Journal of Comparative Family Studies
37
2
191-234
0047-2328
152