incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …

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 …

, fertility determinants that might deteriorate with age, such as health, and their effect on reproductive patterns, should be …

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

Twin births are an important instrumental variable for the endogenous fertility decision. However, in many economic … settings, twins are not exogenous as dizygotic twinning is known to be correlated with maternal characteristics and fertility … of fertility on labor force participation and earnings. …

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 …

This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two …