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the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally … help from government transfers and lower cost associated with having fewer other children, or due to a stronger savings …
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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …
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. We examine 12,228 children diagnosed with CP and their families from 2000 to 2019. We take an event study approach to … study various outcomes, including parents' labor supply, mental health, marital status, and fertility. We find that having a …%. We also find a significant decrease in long-run fertility. These effects are larger for parents with worse socioeconomic …
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of Argentina. Four measures of disability are used: children with a functional disability (based on Washington Group … criteria); children with functional difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking; children with difficulties in the remaining … functional domains; and children with a disability certificate or pension. The results suggest that having a child with …
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