, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … UN military compounds, we find that women living in the proximity of peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …