The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …

We use a unique survey of Danes who have emigrated between 1987 and 2002 to study intra-family decision-making on … family decision-making in a bargaining framework and derive comparative statics to test with our data. Empirically, we find … that family migration decisions are usually a shared preference, but that they are often driven to a larger extent by the …

intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non … family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test … Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters …

Children as a social investment -- Paying for children -- Caring for children -- Children and the search for a work …