Most definitions of reproductive health, including a recent WHO effort to measure the burden of sexual and reproductive health worldwide, focus very narrowly on the morbidity and premature mortality that can be readily identified within standard medical taxonomies. Here, we draw attention to...

In this paper, we use diary data from the Time-use and Health Study to investigate the role of reproductive choice on economic activity among women. While we find that the presence of young children does not affect economic activity in the formal labor market, we find large negative effects of...

This paper combines 172 Demography and Health Survey data sets from 70 countries to estimate the effect of water and sanitation on child mortality and morbidity. The results show a robust association between access to water and sanitation technologies and both child morbidity and child...