"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … India. Policy interventions that affect these conditions could effectively impact the health and achievement of these …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

interventions that pertain to fertility and family planning. The paper consists of five sections. First, this section defines the …