individuals aged between 18 and 49, nine percent have minor children living outside Germany, whereas twelve percent have a husband …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

empirically in a cross-sectional framework with data from Bolivian household surveys. Instead of focusing on actual fertility … levels, the reported desired number of children is considered.The potential problem of ex-post rationalizing births - i ….e. the adaptation of desired to actual fertility levels - is taken into account. The empirical findings are in line with the …

With the goal to shed more light on fertility drivers in Europe, we estimate the causal relationship between the number … of children and parental subjective well-being using two alternative measures: life satisfaction and a happiness index …. Multiple births are used as the source of exogenous variation to deal with number of children endogeneity. Estimating this …

the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally … help from government transfers and lower cost associated with having fewer other children, or due to a stronger savings …