be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …

number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …

abortion. Our results suggest that restrictions do increase the probability that African-American and low income women carry a …

-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the … study of transfer programs focuses on the incentive effects of the programs for parents rather than on the question of … whether parental participation in such programs measurably benefits children. This paper begins to fill this gap in the …

Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand for children. We test these … predictions using Israeli data on intellectually gifted and intellectually disabled children. Because families with an exceptional …