surrounding environment. I examine the effects that local cobalt mining had on child labor and subsequently on fertility rates in … both education attainment and fertility data. I find that the boom in cobalt mining led to a reduction in educational … achievements of individuals who were between 6 and 14 at the time of the boom, and it was accompanied by higher fertility rates …

The long-run impact of economic growth on total fertility trends is ambiguous and sensitive for in-time variations …. Over last decades, economic growth has led in many countries to significant falls in total fertility rates. However, in … recent years, in high-income economies a kind of “fertility rebound” is revealed (Goldstein 2009; Luci and Thevenon, 2010 …