We examine the impact of educational attainment on fertility and mating market outcomes. Using a regression … binding for a quarter of the population. Simple plots of the raw data show substantially lower teen fertility rates across the … threshold of the reform, but no impacts on abortions and no impact on completed fertility by age 45. In the mating market, the …

This paper studies how health behaviors and investments are shaped through family spillovers. Leveraging administrative … healthcare data, we identify the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members' consumption of preventive care … adult children immediately increase their health investments and improve their health behaviors in response to family shocks …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery …'s attractiveness as prospective and current partners. Wealth also increases male fertility. The only discernible effect on female …

status. The steep increase in female education in recent decades could paradoxically have increased FLFNP in India even …

experiment in rural India to test whether an effective communication training among married women impacts their labor supply, the …

This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference … eldest sons, whom parents favor, and other sons. Fertility preferences likewise center on eldest sons. The desire to have at … least one son -- who can fill that eldest son role in the family -- drives the skewed sex ratio, and this preference shows …

, randomly determined, levels of total fertility. These data allow one to isolate the causal effect of family size on the desired …India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …

birth order and ideal family size. Our results suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess … female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for …