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Twin births are often used to instrument for fertility when investigating the impact of family size on labor market … outcomes. In this paper we consider two econometric problems both related to the link between fertility treatments and multiple … births. The first is the potential for omitted variable bias caused by the fact that fertility treatments are typically …
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fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate …
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We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
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among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …
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