invest in the human capital of parents and children. These decisions result from a variety of anticipated post-divorce …Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female-headed households has led to policies aimed at …

channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … are approximately 4 less children born. Male job loss has no significant impact on completed fertility. …This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data …

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …

In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select …. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent. Since the number of children … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …

In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent (and to his partner). Since the number of … children ever born (CEB) is a count variable, we have implemented three empirical models: Poisson, Zero-Truncated Poisson and …

The aim of this paper is to determine the significant variables in the fertility patterns of the Roma population in … are that a greater bargaining power of parents, with respect to their adult children, and a greater involvement of adult … children in the production of the family good, are major contributory factors in increasing the number of children. …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

Divorce is, irrespective of the perspective of approaching the phenomenon from the point of view of the society … general. “Family” starts to have other forms than the “official” ones. Divorce is the last step in the process of erosion and … dissolution of the central axis of the family – the marital couple. Despite the fact that we have considered the divorce as the …

describes the income diversification patterns of Peruvian households with young children (aged between 6 and 18 months … communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …

characteristics. I carefully address the problem of endogenous fertility, which is common in cohort studies. Because most rural … children. Estimating within households, I instrument cohort characteristics with those of the nonsibling (exogenous) portion. I … find that children with larger (or more predominantly male) cohorts of vaccine-eligible age are significantly more likely …