cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …

-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the … household; and the relationship between sleep deprivation and obesity. …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …

to explore the within and between household effect. We find that children of high birth order are likely to fare worse … always hold. In Botswana, children aged 6-60 months are eligible for monthly food ration provided through the health care … household size declined. This paper investigates the child birth order and alternative family structure (i.e household) size …

made my households with respect to the gender composition of their children. By providing access to prenatal sex … surviving children in India …