children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support … and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect …

the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … outcomes are related to the fact that children impose significantly larger penalties on the career trajectories of women … the differential impacts of children on women and men. We propose a simple model of household decision-making to motivate …

families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … EITC with two or more children compared to those with only one child. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factors … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number …

Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for … households where the children are of the same sex …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income … spent on everyday items likely to improve the general conditions children face. Additionally, some families reduce spending …