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 …

estimate the effect of her birth on further fertility. We find that the birth of a gifted child increases family size. However …Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … disabled child negatively affects family size, but only when the child is of high birth order. Our results point to child …

We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on …

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 …

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

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 …

We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on …

We examine the impact of educational attainment on fertility and mating market outcomes. Using a regression … binding for a quarter of the population. Simple plots of the raw data show substantially lower teen fertility rates across the … threshold of the reform, but no impacts on abortions and no impact on completed fertility by age 45. In the mating market, the …