, economists have begun to contribute to the child-gender literature, re-examining the effects of sons and daughters on family … child gender does affect family stability and the time allocation of parents, but it is not clear whether these responses …The prevalence of son preference and its implications for family behaviour in developing countries have received a …

We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from … omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease … children of mothers with low AFQT scores …

analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative … Five. We found no meaningful causal effects of the gender of the next younger sibling, and no associations with the gender … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings’ gender does not systematically affect personality. …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our … grandmothers. In contrast, grandfathers' changes in happiness do not depend on their own child's gender. This result is explained …

and the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …