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 …

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 …

gender gap in labor supply. Gender differences in beliefs about this future gap are primarily explained by gender differences …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

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 …

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

suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …

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 … number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …