The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document … dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an abortion without involving a parent or judge … present, the average distance to a confidential abortion has increased from 55 to 454 miles. Using both double and triple …

transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births …

Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These … often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence … affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm … fertility behavior. Women threatened by job displacement bring births forward to exploit dismissal protection, a strategy that …

abortions and delay those that still occur, increasing second trimester abortions by 19.1%, reducing resident abortion rates by … are larger in counties that are far from abortion providers and in counties with high poverty and unemployment. These …