The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

This study looked at the quantity-quality transition of children in the Philippines. Quantity-quality transition is the … decline in lifetime fertility of women while increasing human capital investment per child. Using data from the 2010 Labor … Force Survey (LFS), fertility and child-completed schooling models using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Ordered-Probit, and …

We address the relationship between number of children and investment in child quality, known as Quantity-Quality (Q …

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 …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

status and school enrollment of children in Romania, a country with a unique fertility history. A first birth twins shock has … make fertility control easier will have significant positive impacts on children's health and schooling …We use the natural experiment of twins at first birth to estimate the effects of unplanned fertility on the nutritional …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …