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 …

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 …

workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …