the fertility transition based on changing preferences over the quality and quantity of children, and somewhat less so …Discussions of cross-sectional fertility heterogeneity and its interaction with economic growth typically assume that … the poor have more children than the rich. Micro-data from 48 developing countries suggest that this phenomenon is very …

of a largescale cohort studyof children living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennium. TheNetherlands … of parents and children. For both ordinary least square estimates as well as the sensitivity analyses the results do not …

In many developed countries a decline in fertility has occurred. This development has been attributed to greater … education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on …

, considerably less evidence about the situation of children related to these matters. Within this context, this paper explores the … fertility of poorer households, a child from a family belonging to the bottom quintile of the wealth distribution is three times …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

children after they are born. Therefore it is interesting and important to understand what factors account for womens decision …

children through purposeful investments. Weexploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …