This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes … convergence in fertility and schooling, changes in labor-force participation, age upon marriage, marriage and divorce rates, and …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … due to an implicit assumption that number and utility of children are complements, which is a byproduct of the high …

A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with …

the probability of such children attending university at the age of 18; however, when both parents are college or senior … buffer the LBW shock among moderately-LBW children (as compared to very-LBW children) and full term-LBW children (as compared … to preterm-LBW children) …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in quot;value of lifequot; type of framework. We are able to … lifequot; and on intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis …

-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two first children of the same sex on the probability of an incremental …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …