relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status … interact and how women's 'autonomy' is negotiated to mitigate adverse birth outcomes such as miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both …

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

across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual … importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed … endogeneity of the unemployment rate which we control for by using a shift-share instrumental variable approach …