The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

increased fertility for teenage and first-time mothers, but selection into pregnancy cannot fully explain the drop in weights. …

We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion … legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime … children born after abortion became legal. Additionally, our findings suggest that the lift of the ban had decreased the number …

outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic …. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we empirically demonstrate these points. Despite a more than 5 percent increase in …

since 1870. A simple theoretical framework accounts for the possibly nonmonotonic variations of fertility in the course of …-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and …

This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …

Fertility rates are below replacement level in most industrialised countries. There are, however, substantial cross … associated with low fertility: delay in the formation of new families, persistent gender asymmetries in practice but also partly …-) decisions on fertility are a way of dealing with these constraints and tensions. …