We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm … fertility behavior. Women threatened by job displacement bring births forward to exploit dismissal protection, a strategy that …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … as well as fertility behavior. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed-term employment …

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in … 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives … for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion …

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion … instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion … of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich …

We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …

In this paper we study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the … unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via sibling fixed effects. Using …-cyclical. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health which varies from strongly adverse for the …

of schooling on completed fertility, probability of being childless and age at first birth, using the within MZ twins … methodology. We find strong cross-sectional associations between schooling and the fertility outcomes and some evidence that more … the effect of women’s schooling on completed fertility is not mediated through husband’s schooling but rather through age …