likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World … sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In …

likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …