fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high …

-exclusive breastfeeding. Falsification exercises suggest that selection concerns such as selective fertility, mobility, and infant mortality …

-exclusive breastfeeding. Falsification exercises suggest that selection concerns such as selective fertility, mobility, and infant mortality …

Declining maternal fertility desire has been recognized as a key factor in understanding China’s sharp drop in realized … fertility. Using results from a nationally representative survey, this paper presents the first causal evidence on the relation … between maternal education and fertility desire in China. Our triple-difference strategy exploits the staggered implementation …

It is generally thought that both the demand for children and the cost of fertility control are major forces in … fertility decline. Most researchers find that family planning programs in developing countries, which lower the cost of … fertility control, play a small role in the fertility transition relative to other economic factors that affect the demand for …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

This paper exploits biological fertility shocks as instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect of motherhood … that promote early motherhood. While such policies may succeed at increasing total period fertility rates, they will be …