in family size or the sex composition of the first two children as an instrument for family size with mixed results. We … exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced …Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a …

We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …-order fertility among lowincome families. However, compared to earlier research in the UK and elsewhere, largely based on benefit …

We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap … gender composition of last-born children produced by sex-selective stopping behavior. The findings indicate a way in which …

after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …

We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010 2020), we compare the … significantly fewer children than women who were not exposed to the OCP. These findings are robust to several specification checks …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …

parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates …'s educational attainment. We develop an empirical strategy to identify these effects. We show that the coefficient on family size in …