potential mechanisms we find that earlier born children receive less quality time from their mothers than later born children … effects; earlier born children stay behind in their human capital development from early childhood to adolescence. Turning to …. In addition, they are breastfed shorter. The estimated birth order effects are largest for children in their teens …

on her child’s secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

. The hypothesis that parents of larger families spend on average less time with their children is also tested and shows the …

introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor … force significantly longer after giving birth, which in turn led to their children spending less time in formal child care …