instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …

fertility. We document increased prenatal care visits, hospital births and other maternal and child hospitalization, which …