application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed … fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of … births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation …

The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people's needs for old-age support raise the demand for …-reform pensions and dfferences in exposure across cohorts, we show that pensions substantially reduce fertility, especially in late … suggest that improving social protection for the elderly could go a long way in fostering fertility decline in Sub …

reason why certain women did not alter their fertility decisions during this time of economic uncertainty. We also show that …

This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …-specific fertility levels to construct a measure of the negative shock to Han fertility. Combining this measure with variation in the …

fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …