more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … growth (with an accompanying state of chronic extreme poverty) has been attributed to many factors ranging from the status of …

-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally-funded family … planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom U.S. fertility decline, the estimates imply that they reduced …

effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …

across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …

We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school … enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …

stages of the pandemic. We exploit a unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam using a treatment effect …

induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …