, because education is less efficient for them. This result provides evidence of gender discrimination in all three countries. A … fertility burden in terms of a large family is another obstacle to female access to high quality jobs. It has a direct negative … Cameroon and Senegal. In these two countries, the more children a woman has, the lower her marginal return to education. These …

by allocating children?s occupations, i.e. school, paid work and domestic chores. Fertility is decreasing with the shock … send fewer children to school, unless the total number of children is small. These predictions are tested with data from … the Senegalese SEHW (2003) following this two-step methodology. A Poisson model estimates the number of children with …

The economic theory of the family as proposed by Becker (1981, 1991) predicts clearly the relationship between income … effect of the woman's wage on fertility, others focusing on the effect of some family policy measures on the decision to have … quite similar family policies. …

from the National Survey of Family and Households are used in a hazard model to determine whether a woman's employment …

in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first …

survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment …