countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women … persistent negative implications on women's physical and mental health that is not just limited to the time of menstruation. …'s subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women …

This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the …, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight … supply. Auxiliary regressions show that at least part of the decline in fertility is due to timing effects, as the fertility …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …

past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different …Using data from two representative Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the change in son preference over the …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in … women in agriculture but not men. It has no effect on the fertility of young women living in non-agricultural households, or … can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from …