limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these …'s educational outcomes - using many waves of the Survey on Household Income and Wealth of the Bank of Italy and focusing on the …

twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child … the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and …. As a parallel development, empirical studies exploit multiple sources of exogenous variations in family size, such as …

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … the effect of family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban …

response to the shock. Families with low socioeconomic status reduced their family size, while families with higher …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …

fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … mothers without college up to nine years after birth suggest a stronger polarization of college graduate jobs into family … participation should be counteracted by policies enabling especially college graduates to have both a career and a family. …

How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …