about 13 percent of the aggregate increase in fertility. Second, women without children before the tsunami initiated family …-building earlier in communities where tsunami-related mortality rates were higher, indicating that the fertility of these women is an …

tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster …

evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 … impacts of major shocks on child health and human capital in Indonesia is nothing short of stunning …

data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are used to identify the impact …

current adult outcomes from the 2000 wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Higher early-life rainfall has large positive … effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

countries that have had large-scale school construction projects, Indonesia and Zambia. Consistent with the model, we find that … Indonesia, as well as a similar program in Zambia, we find evidence consistent with this prediction. Although the program had no …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …