determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

estimate the effect of her birth on further fertility. We find that the birth of a gifted child increases family size. However …Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … disabled child negatively affects family size, but only when the child is of high birth order. Our results point to child …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …

affects fertility …

subsequent fertility …

estimated a logit model of married women's part-time employment and a fertility equation in the context of a simultaneous … interdependency between married women's decisions to work as part-time employees and their fertility in urban Japan …

In this paper it is proposed that high rural fertility in Latin America is a deliberate and rational adjustment to the … institution in much of Latin America, contains a set of powerful fertility inducements which are lost when households face a wage …-labor situation in agriculture or in cities. Thus, the rapid decline of rural fertility in the past decade in Latin America may be due …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …- versus family choice as a major determinant of trade adjustment costs. While older workers respond to the shock rather …