25,000 sterilized women did not receive information that the sterilization implied not being able to have more children …

executed in Peru in the late 1990s. From 2000 to 2016 there is a reduction from 17% to 10% in the use of sterilization as a … contraceptive method. There is also an important socio-demographic change in the incidence of sterilization, from women who are … other, non-terminal, methods. We also estimate that providing incomplete information about the sterilization procedure …

25,000 sterilized women did not receive information that the sterilization implied not being able to have more children …

effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the consequences of sterilization on maternal health. To do so, we take advantage of …. In order to deal with endogeneity issues, we exploit two features of the sterilization decision. First, households have a … replace him or her. As a consequence, women tend to postpone sterilization in areas with more malaria. We exploit the fact …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … choices and create a revised research agenda for population and development, this paper aggregates recent quantitative … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes …