older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … welfare enhancing policy intervention. We discuss the extent to which existing measures in family policy are suitable to …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …

neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …

decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises … respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …