Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development …, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …-breadwinner" arrangement. How do different family models influence the development of children's skills? We use data from the Millennium Cohort …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …. As a parallel development, empirical studies exploit multiple sources of exogenous variations in family size, such as …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … the effect of family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban …

-13 and 2017-18. With the help of these data, we observe the evolution of the individual and household characteristics of …

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 …

number of children. -- Household size ; living arrangements ; roommates ; economies of scale ; household public goods …The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically -from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this … decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are …

The interaction between family size and children quality has been a recurring topic in the economics of family. However … additional sibling due to family interactions. On the other hand, I estimate the effect of family size in Colombia on school lag … instruments based on the report of the ideal number of children. The novelty of the instruments lies in that unlike most articles …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …