, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed between … partners and children are a household public good, there is a conflict between individually optimal and efficient, i.e. surplus …

This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use … data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Overall, we find little support that parental employment affects children …

This model is the first to solve for the optimal timing of childbirth and number of children in a continuous time … decision of childbirth and the optimal number of children. When a woman wants to have more children, she decides to have them … at a younger age. Medical research that extends the fecund life span induces women to have fewer children. A reduction of …

denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a …

per capita growth rates as a result and will have 0.1-0.4 more children per woman, and, by 2015, an average of 14 per 1000 … higher rates of under five mortality and 2.4 percentage points higher prevalence of underweight children under five …