—to study the causal effect of C-sections on child health and on the health, fertility and labor market responses for mothers … impact on maternal health, future fertility or maternal labor market outcomes. …

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

identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … fertility rate (TFR) in Spain, and that the estimated decrease is higher than the effects estimated in previous literature for … fertility such as population ageing. …

fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data …

It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in …, we develop a dynamic model of economic and physiological development in which households decide upon the number and … nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

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 …