economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or … property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion …

exercise of fertility restraint through higher marriage age, with greater human capital accumulation. The first explanation is … children. Evidence is provided that the causal process was operative in later nineteenth century Europe -- Human Capital …

economic development. In our model, heterogeneous families determine fertility and children's human capital, and generations … the dynamic evolution of income and fertility distributions and their interdependencies over three endogenous phases of … dynamic behavior of inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures …

the labour markets: one, family ties and control of women is weakened due to absent men and increasing divorce rates. The …

children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non … spend more on children, even when they have exactly the same preferences as their husbands. However, this does not …