mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …

developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family … that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of … wellbeing if there are quantity-quality trade-offs that result in fewer material and emotional resources allocated to children …

? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they …