margin) as well as participation in education and labour activities (the extensive margin). We find robust evidence that … across children to minimize its impact on formal education. …

This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference … eldest sons, whom parents favor, and other sons. Fertility preferences likewise center on eldest sons. The desire to have at …

We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the … allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect children's activities, thus enabling us to make a distinction between … parameters of our models. We find that the effect of fertility has a large downward bias in naive models. The marginal effect of …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

important, policymakers should invest more in education and other welfare programs in order to mitigate the adverse impacts of …

fertility rates among young women aged 15-34 years. We exploit the fact that countrywide tariff reductions varied across … reduced fertility rate mostly in rural areas. …