population as per the World Health Organization standards. Several studies have shown that stunted growth during childhood … paper uses the 2016 geo-referenced Demographic and Health Survey in conjunction with relevant spatially gridded covariate …

A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …

Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for … intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall … shocks by municipality and date of birth. The analysis finds negative effects of temperature shocks on birth health outcomes …

This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility … survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the … productivity growth rate. The analysis illustrates the key role of child health in the demographic transition …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and …

. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European … countries, low overall fertility in Russia can be explained predominantly by a high prevalence of one-child families, despite …

finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the …In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared with … education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper …

transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …

traditional social institutions with negative effects on adult women's health and well-being. Using individual-level data for … considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape … Nigeria, the paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons, women with first-born daughters have (and desire) more …