effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of …One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong … son preference and women are more likely to be sterilized when their first-born is male. Second, Indian households face …

and Health Surveys (1995–2001 and 2001–2006) for 25 low-income countries, this study examined trends in where women … institutional settings in ten countries, mostly public facilities. In the other 15 countries, the majority of births were in women … countries saw an increase of more than 10 percentage points. More urban women and more in the richest (least poor) quintile gave …

For more than a hundred years, advances in development were associated with decreasing fertility rates. This led to … total fertility rates far below replacement level in most developed countries. However, during the last decade fertility … human development index (HDI) with the total fertility rate (TFR) reverses from negative (increases in HDI are associated …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However … recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …