Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …

that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian … current adult outcomes from the 2000 wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Higher early-life rainfall has large positive … rainfall on agricultural output, leading to higher household incomes and better health for infant girls. We present suggestive …