The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … of a fifth of a year of schooling. However, more recent analyses suggest that the detrimental effects of sibship size on … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the … autonomy. Women who are exposed to the reform are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are … the continuation of the family blood line. These results indicate that educational attainment can alter behaviors and …

longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … gender gap in labor supply. Gender differences in beliefs about this future gap are primarily explained by gender differences …

likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

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

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 …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which conflicting interests … to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high and … strongest among men with more urgent demand for children. Households treated with information on maternal risk experience a …