shifts in fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, family labor supply, gender inequality, and childrearing. This chapter …Over the past two decades, there have been significant changes in family dynamics and labor market interactions, with …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …

Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …

have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to … documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

China and India, two Asian countries that experienced a rapid decline in fertility since the middle of the twentieth …. Moreover, our analysis shows that India, where the fertility decline emerged as a consequence of societal and economic … century, are the focus of this paper. Although there is no doubt that lower fertility levels have many positive effects on the …

cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …