We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a … child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and … uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect a child’s activities. We apply maximum …

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

labor income tax on the fertility rate and per capita consumption. The effects on per capita consumption are opposite in the … hence stimulates per capita consumption. -- child allowance ; child rearing ; endogenous fertility ; wage income tax …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income …