The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …