We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility …-rural variation in fertility by exploiting the exogenous variations in the access rate to electricity at the district-level. Our … results indicate that electrification contributes to a fall in fertility among rural women by between one and three children …

We estimate the effect of housing price changes on fertility and early-life child health in Denmark. Using rich …

Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart …