We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when … these areas, coordinated policies will likely be most effective in generating the momentum needed to pull Africa's economies …

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …

. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders. …We exploit a large exogenous shock to study socioemotional development (SED) during adolescence and the consequences on …

This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

We exploit a large quasi-exogenous shock to study the development of socioemotional skills during adolescence and the ….e., substance abuse), as well as internalizing behavior (i.e., mental health) and in their (labor-market) optimism and expectations …

the labor force, differing levels of education, years of marriage and a number of demographic controls. We find that this …