The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in … 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives … for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion …

-selective abortions are more likely to occur among families with firstborn girls, we study whether the ban on sex-selective abortion …. The results operate through two main channels: an increase in fertility in intensively treated families with firstborn …

development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …