WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …

women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …

related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides … preferences and choices related to individual health and fertility. These findings further suggest that at least one of the two … preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda …

-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … marriage, as well as lower rates of divorce. This move is driven by women, not men. We document substantial long-run earnings …

significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …

the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …