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 …

by sources of school funding, expenditres per pupil, and types of parents who are more likely to send children to …-skilled natives to privately invest in their children’s education and hence weakens their support to finance public school. The … endogenous fertility, the opting-out decision taken by some native parents results in the empirically observed fertility …

mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility …. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan …