. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule … higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a firstborn child is male. Still, there is only mixed evidence that …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that …

With the goal to shed more light on fertility drivers in Europe, we estimate the causal relationship between the number … of children and parental subjective well-being using two alternative measures: life satisfaction and a happiness index …. Multiple births are used as the source of exogenous variation to deal with number of children endogeneity. Estimating this …

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule … higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a firstborn child is male. Still, there is only mixed evidence that …