There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines … the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We … find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …

people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating … poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the …

, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro … in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

household is associated with no variation in parents¿ labor supply. I also find a strong negative externality among children: as … labor to the children in the household, consistent with a model of household labor supply with fully altruistic parents. … in child labor I use State-specific child labor laws. I find that a rise in the proportion of working children by …