00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862409019 Buklod 20210429135830.0 m | | ta 210429s2016 xx a r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00039956699 DML BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3298 Quimbo, Stella author. A novel way of measuring the endowment effect of gaining a child Stella Quimbo, Xylee Javier, Joseph Capuno and Emmanuel de Dios. 2016. pages [56]-71 illustrations 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Title was 'Philippine Review of Business and Economics' until 1979. Title changed to 'Philippine Review of Economics and Business' from 1980-2000, and again changed to 'Philippine Review of Economics' since 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-65). We test, using national survey data on Filipino women, whether stated fertility preferences are stable and, thus, reliable measures of choice. We compare the expressed ideal number of children of two groups of matched women with that of another group having arguably more stable preferences. Using propensity score matching, we find that the stated ideal number of children is significantly higher than the control group with presumed stable preferences, by about 1 child among the poor and among older women. This difference suggest instability in fertility preferences, which may be due to moving fertility targets, cognitive dissonance or anomalous choice behavior arising from status-quo bias, or endowment effects, with the prohibitive cost of "giving up" additional children causing an upward adjustment of fertility targets. Family size Philippines. Human fertility. Children. Javier, Xylee author. Capuno, Joseph author. De Dios, Emmanuel author. The Philippine Review of Business and Economics Vol. LIII, No. 1 (June 2016), p. [56]-71. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 29 April 2021) UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3298 Analytics