legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the …

values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth …Religion Predicting Fertility Behaviour of Young Women in Contemporary GermanyReligion in contemporary Germany is … marked by institutionalized outreach as well as increased pluralisation. Religion can thus play a decisive role in fertility …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm … fertility behavior. Women threatened by job displacement bring births forward to exploit dismissal protection, a strategy that …

formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation … of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced …

fertility outcomes in Indonesia. Using panel data and a sibling fixed effects model, we identify this relationship based on … completed education and the likelihood of completing secondary schooling. The effect on surviving brothers is more muted. A … potential channel for this result is that women respond by changing their fertility behavior. While surviving the death of a …

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …