square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally …

In many societies, parents prefer sons over daughters, but the well-being effects of child gender, especially in later … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … aging population and the traditional preference for sons. Studying the cohort of parents whose child gender is as good as …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase …

the bias and estimate bounds on the true parameter. …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we … demonstrate the nature and size of the bias in the twin-IV estimator of the quantity-quality trade-off and estimate bounds on the …

–quality trade-off, we demonstrate the nature of the bias and estimate bounds on the true parameter. …

parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also … compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …

Swedish register data I compare the labor market outcome trajectories of adult children before and after their parent suffers … a health shock. I find that employment and income of adult children are slightly reduced in the years leading up to the …