countries worldwide. We find that having children is negatively related to well-being. Conditioning on economic and socio … number of children as a proxy variable to account for the endogeneity of parenthood decisions. …

This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi … sample of women from 35 developing countries, I find that having children increases mothers’ life satisfaction and happiness …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …

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 …