The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as …

in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …

conditions as well as their stock of dependent children. The effects were larger among the lower socioeconomic ranks. Our …

are time consuming activities that can be produced within the household or bought at the market and are, thus, connected … through the intertemporal budget constraint of the household that accounts for time and money. This paper models that link and …

families have fewer children than poor ones (when the elasticity of substitution between children and consumption is large …