This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …

currently married, and how many children they have. …

for children during Communism through substitution effects for women's earnings and income effects for men's. …