We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a … child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and … uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect a child’s activities. We apply maximum …

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

assistance. As such, availability of grandmothers affects the cost of having children, and hence fertility decisions of young … parents. In this paper, we develop a simple model to assess the fertility implications of the fluctuations in both output (as …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference …-in-differences research design. Parental death has no statistically significant effect on daughters' fertility, even in situations where the … loss of informal childcare should be particularly pronounced. The absence of a fertility effect is strengthened by an …