fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

We address the relationship between number of children and investment in child quality, known as Quantity-Quality (Q …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

children by parents, we instrument the family size by sex of the first child. We find a negative relationship between family … size and children's educational attainment, even after controlling for parent's characteristics and birth order of children …. The effects are heterogeneous. The trade-off is more pronounced in rural areas, for low-caste children, for illiterate …

fertility decisions, improve health outcomes of children, and mitigate gender inequality … inheritance rights to Indian women on the quantity and quality of children and son preference. Using a difference …-in-differences methodology, we find that women who were affected by the state reforms had 0.35 more children. The increase in the number of sons …