children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … serious practical problem in controlling for fertility and mortality selection. Identification is achieved by imposing a … random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in … ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This … mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which conflicting interests … to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high and … strongest among men with more urgent demand for children. Households treated with information on maternal risk experience a …