The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

fit our samples than the corresponding bivariate probit estimates used in the literature. A comparison of the fertility …If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health … overlook the effects of fertility selection on child health, this paper argues that not accounting for this selection issue …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a … reduction in excess fertility, which is more pronounced among lower-educated women due to their lower likelihood of using …

A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …

We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …