the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0–7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis … any, effect. Our simulations indicate that if high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa had experienced similar …Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility …

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in … significant mortality reduction. Despite the absence of antibiotics and most vaccines, we find the results to be largely driven by …

We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest … marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women … unequal gender division of childcare significantly contributes to the low fertility of South Korea, and its effect varies …

migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …

19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 – 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …