estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman’s fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations … suggest that, for every neonatal death, an additional 0.37 children are born, of whom 0.3 survive. …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of … influence the labor supply decisions of adult children. …

children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … sites to more accurately measure a child’s war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …

health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and …