children and adults living in poverty. Our research design exploits the county roll-out of US family planning programs in the … late 1960s and early 1970s and examines their relationship with poverty rates in the short and longer-term in public census … data. We find that cohorts born after federal family planning programs began were less likely to live in poverty in …

of Argentina. Four measures of disability are used: children with a functional disability (based on Washington Group … criteria); children with functional difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking; children with difficulties in the remaining … functional domains; and children with a disability certificate or pension. The results suggest that having a child with …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … associated with the number of children in the family. Do these observations imply a causal relationship between the number of … children and the average education level (the quantity-quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …

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 …