The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … the effect of family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban …

The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary … examines how the pension policy affects the endogenous fertility of a bargaining couple who have different lifespans. The … analysis finds out a new channel of pension policy on fertility decisions: an increase in pension size affects fertility not …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … indicate that uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility … abuse, both income support and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support …

fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and …