This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

This paper explains how household formation rules affect the fertility and labour supply of women in the Former Soviet … households are shown to have substantially lower subsequent fertility from those whose first child is female. Where households … are generally nuclear, male first borns do not reduce subsequent fertility. Middle-aged women in more patrilocal contexts …