This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with …

This paper studies the effect of women's higher education on fertility outcomes in Ethiopia. We exploit an abrupt … higher education reform, we find that education lowers fertility by 8% and increases the likelihood of never giving birth by … 25%. We explore the role of potential underlying mechanisms and find that this negative effect on fertility is channeled …

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with …