increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … UN military compounds, we find that women living in the proximity of peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the …

This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility … theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise … in women's human capital, relative to men. The resulting rise in the opportunity cost of children leads to a subsequent …

Garcia Moreno Esteva -- Levels and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity / Veronique Filippi, Doris Chou, Carine … Ronsmans, Wendy Graham, and Lale Say -- Levels and causes of mortality under age five years / Li Liu, Kenneth Hill, Shefali Oza … morbidity and mortality / A. Metin Guilmezoglu, Theresa A. Lawrie, Natasha Hezelgrave, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Joao Paulo Souza …