Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between … health shocks on the amount of children’s time spent in work, leisure and education. One key contribution of the paper is …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD …

household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for … cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We find that the birth of sons rather than daughters significantlyreduces … maternal time spent on household chores, which we argue represents an increasein maternal intra-household bargaining power …