households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …

households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. … fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the …

education while an education tax reduces both education and fertility, with heterogeneous effects across the income distribution …East Asians, especially South Koreans, appear to be preoccupied with their offspring's education---most children spend … currently has the lowest total fertility rate in the world. In this paper, we propose a theory with status externalities and …

and a fixed effect two-stage least squares model, this study exploits variations in fertility and in human capital … progress increased the demand for human capital, leading to an increase in the level of education and, in turn, to a …

across education: The social norm lowers fertility for highly educated women but increases it for the less educated. Pro …We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest … marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women …

-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender …