fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the …-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results for parents younger than 50 years old show that a e10 increase in monthly … cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution. …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …