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 …

Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health : an overview / Robert Black, Marleen Temmerman, and Neff Walker … -- The burden of reproductive ill health / Alex Ezeh, Abdhalah K. Ziraba, John Cleland, Akinrinota Bankole, anmd Claudia …-for-age / Gretchen Stevens, Mariel Finucane, and Christopher Paciorek -- Interventions to improve reproductive health / John Stover …