Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …

invested in children (which in turn affect child mortality), we use a maximum likelihood method to model birth spacing and …

level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined. In addition … the health literature, no significant correlation between children’s health and per capita expenditures is found. This … negatively related to child health. Birth order has a significant impact on the health of children; older children are taller …

child labour variables are compared. We conclude that children and adults are perfect labour substitutes and that the … marginal productivity of children is roughly one-third to one-half that of male adults. The average contribution of each …

In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in … income rises by enough to eliminate transfers from children to parents. …

child labour variables are compared. We conclude that children and adults are perfect labour substitutes and that the … marginal productivity of children is roughly one-third to one-half that of male adults. The average contribution of each …

uncertainty about the number of surviving children. If the marginal utility of a surviving child is convex then there will be a … precautionary demand for children. As the mortality rate and thus uncertainty falls, this demand decreases. Furthermore, lower … mortality encourages educational investment in children. The key result is that this empirically observed quality-quantity trade …

survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment …