I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand possible consequences from a reduced … international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces … fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician … preferences over abortion influence abortion-related outcomes, most likely through greater enforcement of laws against sex …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child … generate a demographic transition. Falling mortality can only explain a relatively small part of the fertility decline. A …

We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be … difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal effect of ITNs on mortality and fertility. We show that the … ITN distribution campaigns reduced all-cause child mortality, but surprisingly increased total fertility rates in the …

-selective abortions are more likely to occur among families with firstborn girls, we study whether the ban on sex-selective abortion …. The results operate through two main channels: an increase in fertility in intensively treated families with firstborn …