prevalent. There are two features to the model: first, children contribute in an economic sense through child labour and through … conflicts with children's labour contributions. …This paper examines human capital investment in rural households of developing countries, where child labour is …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

. We find that subsidies to the costs of children expand the set of equilibria, making social security viable where it …

health personnel catering to the health needs of the children. It will be easier to bring about the needed improvement in the …

children as old-age economic security, discouraging fertility. In particular, this fact may explain the contemporaneity of the …