This paper presents a model where economic growth, via growth in female wages relative to male wages, encourages households to raise paid female labor supply and have more children by substituting child care for maternal time. A threshold logarithm per capita output, above which fertility...

We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...

India has a majority percentage of population in rural areas and still in large areas, literary percentage is low in spite of adult education program launched by the government. More and more banks need to address the issues of this less literate segment of society for fast grasping of the...

Adolescent motherhood has been linked with poor health outcomes at birth for children, including high neonatal mortality, low-birth weight, and small-for-gestational age rates. However, longer term growth outcomes in the children of adolescent mothers in low-resource settings remain inadequately...