Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …

the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children's meals than men. Third, the spouses' respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the "caring preferences" of their parents or has treated them as household public goods [Bourguignon (1999 …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …