We examine the Zika outbreak in Colombia in 2015 to determine how a negative shock affects female behaviors related to fertility. Our empirical strategy combines Zika reports and Demographic health surveys to distinguish the responses according to their marital status and it is based on an...

We test the existence of changes in the relationship between fertility and schoolingin Colombia for women from 30 to 40 years old between 1995 and 2005. For ourpurpose, we use Poisson Regression Models. Our database is the Demographic andHealth Survey from 1995 and 2005. We found a reduction in...

We test the existence of changes in the relationship between fertility and schooling in Colombia for women from 30 to 40 years old between 1995 and 2005. For our purpose, we use Poisson Regression Models. Our database is the Demographic and Health Survey from 1995 and 2005. We found a reduction...