The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of preference for children of particular gender on fertility and … children's welfare, with and without sex selection on "gender control". …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for … parents. They can purchase day car e or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination … of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal good …

parental altruism. Instead, it uses the fact that a larger number of children reduces the riskiness of the financial payoff … from having children, a factor which is more important for the poor than for the wealthy. Cross country econometric tests …