. We create a unique panel data set combining Demographic and Health Surveys, Household Income Surveys, and nighttime light … intensity data, as an indicator for industrialization, from 57 countries at the sub-national regional level over three decades … also highlights the important role of increased female labor force participation in the formal sector, industrialization …

world using a novel regional level panel dataset created by matching Demographic and Health Surveys and Household Income …-agricultural formal jobs and industrialization as measured by an increase in nighttime light intensity are indeed important determinants … of the fertility transition. We also find suggestive evidence for a complementary role of access to health insurance …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to “health production functions.” The …

correlates of fertility differences across space and over time are female schooling and health, with the former having larger … of improved health may be overstated in the literature, which is substantially based on inferring longitudinal relations …

subsidized child human capital through schools and public health programs, which has encouraged parents to demand fewer, higher …

subsidized child human capital through schools and public health programs, which has encouraged parents to demand fewer, higher …