clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … the reform, reproductive-health and family-planning services have been covered under the FMP. To establish causality, we …

Fertility rates have long been falling in many developed countries while educational attainment in these countries has … effects of education on these decreases in fertility. Specifically, we find that education “compresses” the fertility …

migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …, low-skilled with high fertility preferences always stay, and only an endogenously determined fraction of high …

This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 … 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 …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health. We argue that school entry policies manipulate …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members …

health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our …This paper investigates the economic returns to parental health. To account for potential endogeneity between parental … results show that the economic returns to parental health are high. We show that maternal health not only significantly …

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …