The hypothesis that increases in the schooling of women enhance the human capital of the next generation and thus make a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the basis of data describing green revolution India. Estimates are obtained that indicate that a component of the...

We use new survey-based data on siblings to assess the potential role of bequests in either redistributing income among siblings or affecting offspring behavior as implied by prominent models. The data are not focused on the upper tail of the wealth distribution and include both own and sib...

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...