fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …