This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second …-generation individuals who did not face such legal constraint. Using multiple censuses from Romania, I follow men and women born around the … 1966 Romanian abortion ban to study the demand for children over their life cycle. The empirical approach combines elements …

This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second …-generation individuals who did not face such legal constraint. Using multiple censuses from Romania, I follow men and women born around the … 1966 Romanian abortion ban to study the demand for children over their life cycle. The empirical approach combines elements …

This paper analyzes to what extend fertility preferences correlates across generations, dealing with a largely … understudied dimension of the demand for children. The paper exploits the abrupt implementation of the 1966 Romanian anti-abortion … socio-economic status and fertility preferences of their parents affect their own reproductive behavior. Methodologically …

research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …

fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a …I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand possible consequences from a reduced … international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces …

fertility through two complementary channels. For households at the top of the wealth distribution, the effect manifests as a …I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the potential consequences of a reduced … international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces …

transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births …

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 …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …