Fertility becomes a strategic choice for minorities when having a larger share of the population helps to increase power.
 If parents invest resources to educate their children, raising fertility for strategic reasons might be at the cost
 of future human capital. We dispel this view using census data from several developing countries. We show that religious
 and ethnic minorities in Indonesia, China and Malaysia tend to invest more in both education and fertility compared
 to larger groups. Solving for the Nash equilibrium of an appropriation game between two groups with education and
 fertility being prescribed as group-specific behavioral norms, we offer a rationale for the observed patterns
 provided that human capital is an important input to appropriation.