Schultz, T. Paul - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3249-3303). 2007
contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes …, economists discover these “cross effects” of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in absolute …