Ejrnæs, Mette; Pörtner, Claus C. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 86 (2004) 4, pp. 1008-1019
This paper develops a model of intrahousehold allocation with endogenous fertility, which captures the relationship between birth order and investment in children. It shows that a birth order effect in intrahouse hold allocation can arise even without assumptions about parental preferences for...