first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour …

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

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not … robust to how the social evaluator fixes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

custodial parents exercise their children's voting rights until they come of age) and the vast literature on formal models with … endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging …

occupational outcomes, marriage, and fertility that are similar across census waves. Our results indicate that the returns to …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …