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 …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …

access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the fertility …

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with … mandated buyout fees. Evidence of heterogeneous fertility and patent obsolescence, keys to the model, are presented using …