Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …

the laissez-faire solution in a pure market economy, and in one where reproductive decisions and intra-family transfers … are constrained by self-enforcing family constitutions. Section 5 introduces the state, and shows that first and second … rather than family level. Another type of model looks for voting equilibria in direct, and in representative democracies. …

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …

their children. According to another, such negotiations are made unnecessary by self-enforcing family rules. Fertility … working-age people to man the physical capital and materially take care of the elderly. The link between fertility- and aging …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …

During Vietnam's two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its … measures of household education investments. To assess the quantity-quality tradeoff, we instrument for family size using the … commune distance to the nearest family planning center. Our IV estimation results based on data from the Vietnam Household …

framework combines family context, opportunity cost, and social-psychological perspectives. Each perspective has predictive …'s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires … finds some to be important predictors of expectations and desires about family formation …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …