The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …

development and it has been suggested that MF has significant beneficent impacts on contraceptive adoption and fertility. Thus … use and reduces fertility at the individual level, largely because MF empowers women. Pitt et al (1999) – henceforth PKML … especially when females borrow, and male borrowing decreases fertility, perhaps because fertility increasing income effects of MF …

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …

such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …

such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … through which conflict influences fertility. First, the type of violence exposure as measured by the death of a woman's child …-level sex ratio. Results indicate that the genocide had heterogeneous effects on fertility, depending on the type of violence …

Fertility is a main driver and outcome of long-term growth. Yet, fertility may not only interact with the level of … income but also with its volatility. In pre-modern economies where formal social security was largely absent, fertility … transition in the United States covering the period 1870 to 1930 and explore whether variation in fertility among American …

There is some evidence that access to schooling reduces fertility along the intensive margin in developing countries …, but the transmission channels are not well understood; most education interventions impact financial costs, access, and … school quality. We isolate the specific effect of child school fees on maternal fertility by studying a 1997 schooling reform …

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 … increase in the supply of tertiary education induced by a deregulation policy. Using an age discontinuity in the exposure to …