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 …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

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 …

framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural … favourable indirect repercussions on the nutritional status of children. Both types of policies discourage fertility. Income re …

decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

,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 …

and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

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. …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …