, 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 …

are that a greater bargaining power of parents, with respect to their adult children, and a greater involvement of adult … children in the production of the family good, are major contributory factors in increasing the number of children. …

number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … this is not the case. Comparing completed fertility by birth cohorts, we find that on average men have more children than … women in four out of the six countries we consider. The gaps are large – reaching up to 4.6 children in Burkina Faso for the …

Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births …

conditioning on fertility treatments, (c) both labour supply regressions and quantity-quality-tradeoff regressions for children …

. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

with the desired family size question, both constrained and unconstrained couples compare their demand for children with … qualitative response such as, "It is Up to God" (UTG), that essentially conveys the notion of demanding as many children as the …