been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility … relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country …

, suggesting weakened role of son preference within families in contemporary China. …

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

between child quantity and quality, is still inconclusive. Recent empirical studies have focused heavily on China, exploiting … discretion, we find evidence for a sizeable child quantity-quality trade-off in China. Various robustness checks corroborate this …