children. Newborn infants are heavier in urban than in rural areas and females are born lighter than males. There is evidence …

the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows …-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types … of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling …

. 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 …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has … affected enrollment. Poor children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the …

Two explanations for the weakening of the nuclear family are increased state support of poor unmarried mothers, and … currently married, and how many children they have. …

's bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …