clearly increases the likelihood to have a first child. -- Family formation ; fertility ; unemployment ; cross …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … alternative sub-samples. -- Fertility ; household behavior ; children's well-being ; Colombia …