Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must …

winning. A clan’s fertility is determined ex ante by each group. In the quest for greater bargaining power, each clan … between Easter and Tikopia Islands. The paper also makes a methodological contribution in that it is the first fertility model … to include strategic complementarities between groups’ fertility decisions …

the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

four decades, despite the fact that in the same period, women's education rapidly increased and fertility rates … this puzzle by testing whether there is a causal impact of the number of children on mother's labor supply. It uses twins … at first birth as an instrumental variable to estimate the causal impact of fertility on participation of mothers in the …