access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black infants (16%) than for … White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show that the effect of …

outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed … frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …

This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference … eldest sons, whom parents favor, and other sons. Fertility preferences likewise center on eldest sons. The desire to have at …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial …, and lower realized and desired fertility today. We show evidence suggesting that the inherited pattern of low … rule out women's empowerment or improvements in human and physical capital as pathways for the fertility decline. These …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery …'s attractiveness as prospective and current partners. Wealth also increases male fertility. The only discernible effect on female …