Millions of women continue to die during and soon after childbirth, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid … this are available. We posit that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the timing of … of young women of about 0.5 years. The results are robust to numerous robustness checks. They suggest a new policy tool …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …