fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

changes in fertility, child schooling and lifetime married female labor supply as a consequence of exogenous changes in health … child mortality lead to a modest decline in human capital and increase in fertility, with little effect on married female … labor force involvement. In sharp contrast, reductions in morbidity are found to lower fertility and increase education. The …