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 …

custodial parents exercise their children's voting rights until they come of age) and the vast literature on formal models with … endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging …

relationship between fertility rates and income was positive. On the other hand, there were those who raised the possibility that … this linkage did not occur, and they emphasized that an increase in income did not necessarily lead to having more children … show that those who took the view that an increase in income leads to the desire to have more children, did not take into …

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories before and after the birth of a child using large British … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a …