Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …

particular result that seems to suggest that couples do actually bargain competitively is the result that links fertility … decisions to bargaining power. The argument is that women prefer less children than men, and that bargaining power influences … fertility. However, we argue, these studies are suffering from endogeneity issues that are not properly instrumented for. We …

which have occurred over the past decades; delayed entry into marriage and decline in fertility levels across both developed … marriage timing and fertility level differences using both economic and cultural factors. The results indicate that economic … denomination of countries. Religious denomination is also an important indicator of fertility level differences among both …

indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a … larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …

children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also … compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …

drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise …How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … is analyzed within an overlapping generations model where parents choose the number of high and low skilled children they …

overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they …This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … want to raise and decide upon how many children obtain higher education. Only high skilled individuals migrate with a …