Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation and …

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …

workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …

availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …. This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on … fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have …