's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

This paper examines the impact of early-life radiation exposure on adult fertility using a dynamic difference …-in-differences approach. Analyzing 18 cohorts of women born between 1976 and 1993 in Italian municipalities, we utilize a radiation exposure … increased rates of thyroid complications and cancer among women exposed in utero or up to five years old, along with higher …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …. While 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 …

the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …

evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … birth, and infant health. In the context of South Korea, I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …

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 …