We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …

We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

China as a case in point. Entry deregulation has negative impacts on patent applications, and the effects are more …

In this paper, I examine the effects of China's civil examination system (keju) on modern-day innovation and firm …