.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the … payments in each region (bride price in Africa and dowry in India). Our results highlight the importance of understanding the …

sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … ; abortion ; fertility ; human capital ; economic growth …

and around the time that temporary disability insurance benefits are exhausted for women - is consistent with causal … effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …

sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …