childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. -- fertility ; family policy ; household allocation …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

also stay longer in post-primary school. According to the average returns of education in Indonesia, I conclude that family …

education while an education tax reduces both education and fertility, with heterogeneous effects across the income distribution …East Asians, especially South Koreans, appear to be preoccupied with their offspring's education---most children spend … currently has the lowest total fertility rate in the world. In this paper, we propose a theory with status externalities and …

We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the … allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect children's activities, thus enabling us to make a distinction between … parameters of our models. We find that the effect of fertility has a large downward bias in naive models. The marginal effect of …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …