This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

Previous studies usually use child gender-related variables as instruments for fertility choices in households. However …, we find that without considering the effect of child gender, the traditional IV estimate of the fertility effect will be …

increase fertility during layoffs, compared with others; and 2) reduced educational investments during schooling. This evidence …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and …

We review existing approaches to the specification and estimation of dynamic microeconomic models of fertility. Dynamic … fertility models explain the evolution of fertility variates over the life-cycle as the solution to a dynamic programming model … models of lifetime fertility. JEL classification: J13, C41, C61 …