the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … precipitation at the time of the accident. We find robust empirical evidence of compensating investment behavior by parents in …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …