One can use the Census Bureau's income statistics to show either that low-income children were considerably worse off …-income children gained very little or a great deal between 1969 and 1999. Resolving these disagreements requires agreeing on the best …, we investigate trends in children's well-being using more direct measures of material well-being, such as housing …

This paper develops a theory of the fertility choice that focus on the shadow price of the quality of children and … interaction between fertility and economic growth. Through the choice of per child quality within family, the analysis contributes … to narrowing the many remaining gaps between endogenous family decisions on fertility and aggregate economic growth …