This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and fertility decisions in China, utilizing a … longitudinal dataset of Chinese households. We find that parental health shocks significantly delay the reproductive age and … decrease the desire for additional children among adult children in the family. Furthermore, our analysis shows that personal …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

during pregnancy. Moreover, those who did not use assisted reproductive technology present a higher prevalence of these … better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …