undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies … that the impact of the mother's wage on her completed fertility varies with the market price of child care, and that this …

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … of poverty within and across countries. The joint determination of the quality (education) and quantity of children in … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their …

The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for … representative women with different numbers of children. These are then combined with the earnings function to simulate lifetime … income. The simulations indicate that the earnings forgone as a result of bearing and rearing two children can be decomposed …

in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions, which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

all result from individual decisions. Parents face a trade-off between the number of children they have and the spending … an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth … they can afford on each of them in childhood. These childhood development spending will determine children longevity when …

fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …