with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for …

effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century … quantitative model that aims to capture their impact. Our results suggests that these advances, by enabling women to reconcile work …

female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the … reduced overall fertility, it increased fertility for older mothers …

to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than … male education. However, female and male education seem equally important factors in reducing child mortality. We suggest …

low-income women. Accounting for 2020’s reductions in access to contraception and the economic slowdown, our results … predict a modest decline in births of 1.1 percent in 2021 for low-income women. Further accounting for reductions in access to … abortion implies that birth rates may even rise for low-income women. These results also suggest that already economically …

abortion. Our results suggest that restrictions do increase the probability that African-American and low income women carry a …

not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased …The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) typically assumed in the fertility literature. We show that, not only is this …

This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on infant mortality, noninfant mortality and general … fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and … relief spending during the New Deal contributed to reductions in infant mortality, suicide rates, and some other causes of …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid … status of women, pro-natalist policies, poverty itself, and social institutions. There remains, however, a large degree of …

declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further …