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 …

margin) as well as participation in education and labour activities (the extensive margin). We find robust evidence that … across children to minimize its impact on formal education. …

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

between maternal education and fertility desire in China. Our triple-difference strategy exploits the staggered implementation … promotes maternal education but decreases the fertility desire of the affected cohorts. Our instrumental variable estimate … further gauges that one additional year of education would decrease a woman’s fertility desire by 0.28. We present evidence …

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 …

We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the … allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect children's activities, thus enabling us to make a distinction between … parameters of our models. We find that the effect of fertility has a large downward bias in naive models. The marginal effect of …