Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the … improve child anthropometrics. One exception is that the communication training increases women's and children's intake of …

implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … neonatal death rates because obstetrical and" medical knowledge was poorer. In addition, by day ten children in the past were … at a" disadvantage relative to children today because best practice resulted in insufficient feeding. The" poor average …

We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on … children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear … families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in … ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This … mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high …

One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm and Peters (1990 …), claimed a large positive effect of child tax benefits on fertility using time series methods. We revisit this question in … do not find evidence that child tax benefits affect the level of fertility, we find some evidence of a short …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a … married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The … friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children's income, then the …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents …