We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …, and show that this fraction decreases if women's labour market returns increase. We also examine the robustness of such …

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 …