Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates …

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 …

show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

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

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by … World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in … increased excess female infant mortality and son-biased fertility stopping. This suggests that the inheritance reform raised the … costs of having daughters, consistent with which we document an increase in stated son preference in fertility post …

networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for … whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold constraints. Enabling women to jointly visit a clinic with other women not …. Moreover, this intervention was more effective in improving reproductive autonomy of women who faced greater intrahousehold …