This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South...

This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South...

The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...