Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

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 …

Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height … shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. We find that girls born after a shock in a …

reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …

size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous … response to the shock. Families with low socioeconomic status reduced their family size, while families with higher …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …