The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both … administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at … 2015 development agenda, our findings highlight any potential added-value from providing age specific family planning …

not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

address the endogeneity of fertility decisions, I use two natural experiments that exogenously increase the number of children …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment …

the role of colonial reproductive policies in shaping fertility behavior in Africa. Exploiting the arbitrary division of … to conduct an event-study analysis. We find that the effect of colonial origins on fertility is entirely driven by …. We find little evidence that the fertility effect of British colonization operates through education or income. While …