We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility … is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer facilities for childcare. …

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education …

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of fertility on female labor supply have only been able to identify … the causal effect of second and higher-parity children. This study uses exogenous variation in fertility caused by the …

, compared to the US, fertility is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer formal …We study the effect of fertility on maternal labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous …

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data …-force participation of women does have an important effect on the spacing of pregnancies, although the effect is less pronounced in the … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … that women benefit from labor force participation, and that this gain exceed financial benefits from earnings. However, the … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …

to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process … households' investments in education and utilisation of child labour. …