Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …

inheritance, there is a substantial role for environment and a much smaller role for genetics. We also examine the role played by …

female labour market participation, which is in turn related to fertility reduction. Lastly we find that more rapid urban … growth accelerates fertility decline, but, in late 19th century Britain it slowed the reduction of infant mortality …

during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be … difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal effect of ITNs on mortality and fertility. We show that the … ITN distribution campaigns reduced all-cause child mortality, but surprisingly increased total fertility rates in the …