clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … the reform, reproductive-health and family-planning services have been covered under the FMP. To establish causality, we …

expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …

. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for …

that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure. …

the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the … fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …