higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the … to sons seem to have caused families to change the sex-composition of and health investments in their children. …

electricity and fertility. We find no evidence that changes to direct and indirect costs of children play a role. Overall, the …We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the …

cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the …

-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the impact of the civil war on infant and child mortality. War exposure … mortality for the exposed and the unexposed birth cohorts. We find large positive effects of exposure to the conflict on infant … and child mortality. Moreover, restricting our sample to the survivors, we find that child mortality is significantly …