This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of fertility, human capital accumulation, child labor and … economic development. Due to uncertainty about child survival, parents have a precautionary demand for children. Rising … survival probability leads to falling fertility, eventually to investment into schooling and the demise of child labor. Child …

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

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 …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

effect on women's fertility choice and utilization of reproductive health care in rural Pakistan. Exploiting variations in … planning exposure on women's fertility choice and reproductive health care utilization. The analysis suggests that, even in the …

,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …