Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates … coexist with low contraceptive use alongside adverse perinatal outcomes. Using a combination of ethnographic, ecological, and …

This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates … variation in contraceptive access to demonstrate that it reduced the rates of both extremely preterm births and infant mortality …

deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This suggests that expanding contraceptive access could help close the infant …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the … extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the … extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill …