This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …

daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference …-in-differences research design. Parental death has no statistically significant effect on daughters' fertility, even in situations where the … loss of informal childcare should be particularly pronounced. The absence of a fertility effect is strengthened by an …

This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …