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 …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …

estimated a logit model of married women's part-time employment and a fertility equation in the context of a simultaneous … interdependency between married women's decisions to work as part-time employees and their fertility in urban Japan …

In this paper it is proposed that high rural fertility in Latin America is a deliberate and rational adjustment to the … institution in much of Latin America, contains a set of powerful fertility inducements which are lost when households face a wage …-labor situation in agriculture or in cities. Thus, the rapid decline of rural fertility in the past decade in Latin America may be due …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …- versus family choice as a major determinant of trade adjustment costs. While older workers respond to the shock rather …

: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family …

are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are less likely to get forced into marriage … against their consent, and they are less likely to agree that only a son can ensure the continuation of the family blood line …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …

siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …