understudied dimension of the demand for children. The paper exploits the abrupt implementation of the 1966 Romanian anti …-abortion decree that discontinuously changed the composition of mothers in relation to their 'taste' for children. Using multiple … socio-economic status and fertility preferences of their parents affect their own reproductive behavior. Methodologically …

if the child gender directly affect the outcome variable other than changing the number of children, the exclusion … China's One Child Policy. Applying to the children's effects on parental migration decision, we find that the addition of … one girl in the family will result in a 13.7% increase in the probability that both parents in rural households migrate to …

children. We exploit the fact that since the mid 2000s an increasing number of employers have become proactive and implemented … difference-in-differences approach combined with matching. Based on a large panel dataset on families with children in Germany …

% more parents with multiple children would have had a child nearby. Public policies that reduce children's private costs may …When siblings wish for the well-being of their elderly parents, the cost of caregiving and long-term commitment creates … among adult siblings regarding their location choice relative to their elderly parents. Using the US Health and Retirement …

Parents in several cultures ‘discipline’ their daughters to inculcate the supposedly feminine virtues and improve their … framework views confinement by parents as an intrinsically valueless or valuable signal of some unobservable characteristic of …

Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker … provincial OCP regulations and studying exclusively post-compulsory schooling outcomes of children that are subject to parental …

began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …