increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify … the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …

relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status … interact and how women's 'autonomy' is negotiated to mitigate adverse birth outcomes such as miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth …