, we identify how total household resources are divided up among household members by observing how each family member …'s expenditures on a single private good like clothing vary with income and family size. Using data from Malawi we show how resources … devoted to wives and children vary by family size and structure, and we find that standard poverty indices understate the …

a shift toward the pastoral sector. This improved female employment prospects, leading to later marriages. Using …

to education and credit constraints. Our model predicts correlations among family size, years of schooling and birth …

smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic …