administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda …Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides …

birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … marginal effects of particulates on birthweight are large but we fail to detect an effect on neonatal mortality. We interpret … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …