records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …

larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

. We find that weather shocks in cropping season, increases the likelihood of child mortality, low birth weight, and birth …

mortality are important determinants of fertility decline, while per-capita GDP has probably worked in the opposite direction … (Brueckner and Schwandt, 2015). Mortality is instrumented with the predicted mortality (Acemoglu and Johnson, 2007), and mothersí …

the linked birth and infant death data in the U.S. with a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the … implementation of a six-week PFL in California reduced the post-neonatal mortality rate by 0.135, or it saved approximately 339 … infant lives. The effects were driven by death from internal causes, and there were larger effects for infants with married …

channel of mortality selection. However, we observe a slight decline in the sex ratio among children born to black mothers … effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black … mothers, as indicated by an increase in the rate of LBW by 2.5 percentage points (or 19 percent). Children born to white …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …