This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine … Bangladesh famine were 32 percent more likely to die within one month of birth compared to their siblings who were not in utero … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … supply function can yield. I then test this interpretation using data from Bangladesh. I find that controlling for demand …

experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh …. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …