, 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 …

We analyze the emergence of the first socioeconomic institution in history limiting fertility: west of a line from St …. Petersburg to Trieste, the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) reduced childbirths by approximately one-third between the fourteenth …

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

The 1960s ushered in a new era in US demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility. (JEL J12, J13, K10, N31, N32) …