households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

We explore the effect of female autonomy on individual fertility in Nepal. We find that families where wives have high …

also stay longer in post-primary school. According to the average returns of education in Indonesia, I conclude that family …

This paper analyzes household fertility and child occupation decisions in a risky environment. Fertility decisions are … made fi?rst, when only the distribution of shocks is known. When shocks are realized and fertility is ?xed, parents adapt … by allocating children?s occupations, i.e. school, paid work and domestic chores. Fertility is decreasing with the shock …

indirect effect toward the completion of schooling, thus keeping mothers’ fertility relatively high and reducing education …. Similarly to international evidence, we found that education, age, family size, employment and occupation of the household head …'s student enrollment rates over different generations improved considerably, reducing the education-gap compared to Arab men …

selection of fertility levels is a driving factor. While the effect of the number of children on schooling is significant, it …