Search Results - subject_exact:"Birth control"

Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2025

This paper presents new causal evidence on the "power" of oral contraceptives in shaping women's lives, leveraging the 1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that affected Pill take-up. We analyze administrative data to...

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Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2023

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Religious barriers to birth control access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2022

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House prices, fertility rates, and homeownership : evidence from the UK

Houillon, Harry; Liu, Natalie Xiaoqi; Bao, Helen X. H. - 2026

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Ideology over evidence : pronatalist media discourse and its (dis)connection from U.S. fertility trends

Wright, Kelsey Q.; Şanltürk, A. Ebru; Mann, Emily S. - 2026

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The legacy of China’s one-child policy on human capital : how being raised by an only child affects cognitive and noncognitive skill development

Feng, Shuaizhang; Gan, Yu; Han, Yujie; Kautz, Tim - 2026

China's One-Child Policy (OCP) restricted most couples to a single birth, leading to a rapid increase in the prevalence of only children. Using longitudinal data and a regression discontinuity design around the policy's start, we estimate the effects on grandchildren's human capital. We find...

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Migration reform and fertility : evidence from rural China

Jin, Wenchao; Jin, Zhangfeng - 2026

How do institutional barriers to migration shape fertility in developing economies? We analyze the staggered removal of institutional barriers to rural-to-urban migration across 283 Chinese cities. We find that reducing these frictions led to a significant and persistent increase in fertility in...

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Husbands' support versus workplace support in shaping intentions for permanent childlessness

Kim, Joeun - 2026

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Mass media and contraception use : an experimental test of modernization theory in Burkina Faso

Glennerster, Rachel; Murray, Joanna; Pouliquen, Victor - 2026

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Mass media and contraception use : an experimental test of modernization theory in Burkina Faso

Glennerster, Rachel; Murray, Joanna; Pouliquen, Victor - 2026

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Mass Media and Contraception Use : An Experimental Test of Modernization Theory in Burkina Faso

Glennerster, Rachel; Murray, Joanna; Pouliquen, Victor - 2026

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Fertility response to family policy : Insights from Spain's paternity leave

Regueiro-Ons, Camila; Pinilla Domínguez, Jaime; … - 2026

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A tale of two choices : son preference and reproductive outcomes in Uzbekistan

Dushamova, Khilola; Javed, Rashid; Suyunov, Gayrat; … - 2026

In this study, we use data from the recent round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) to estimate the effect of son preference on reproductive behaviour in Uzbekistan. We find strong evidence of differential stopping and spacing behaviour among Uzbek women. Women are significantly...

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From dating to marriage : changes in short-term fertility intentions across partnership transitions

Dierker, Philipp; Ophir, Ariane; Hiekel, Nicole - 2026

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The labor market returns to delaying pregnancy

Gallen, Yana; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Johansen, Eva Rye - 2026

We study the labor market impact of unplanned pregnancy among women using long-acting reversible contraceptives to delay pregnancy. While most women successfully delay, some have unplanned pregnancies, providing quasi-random variation in pregnancy timing. Analyzing linked health and labor market...

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The labor market returns to delaying pregnancy

Gallen, Yana; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Johansen, Eva Rye - 2026

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Value change and the new wave of fertility postponement in Western Europe

Lindström, Oskar; Guetto, Raffaele; Vignoli, Daniele - 2026

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What's behind declining birth rates in the U.S.?

Bradley, Allen; Bradley, Lila Newberry; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2026

Using the National Survey of Family Growth, this paper explores reasons behind the falling birth rate in the United States. The analysis confirms that newer generations of women are less likely to have any children than generations that came before. Comparing outcomes among women at the same...

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Son preference, intergenerational household dynamics, and women's mental health in India

Anukriti, S; Herrera, Catalina; Hossain, Shahadat; … - 2026

We examine how son preference affects women's mental health across generations using original survey data from extended households in rural India. Leveraging exogenous variation in the sex of the firstborn child, we find that mothers-in-law (MILs) whose coresident daughter-in-law (DIL) had a...

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The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Kaytan, Sevin; Piedra-Bonilla, Stwarth; Zohar, Tom - 2026

We investigate how information frictions affect the efficacy of contraception provision programs. We study a Costa Rican initiative that combined free access to long-acting reversible contraceptives and a tailored information campaign to correct for baseline misinformation. Using administrative...

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The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Kaytan, Sevin; Piedra-Bonilla, Stwarth; Zohar, Tom - 2026

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Childlessness and advance care planning in midlife and late adulthood : a mixed-methods study in Singapore

Ho, Christine; Kim, Dahye; Neo, Pearlyn; … - 2026

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When the last big arrow was loosed : how the one-child policy relaxations reshaped fertility trends in China

Li, Anqi; Maruyama, Shiko; Zhang, Yangyang - 2026

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User-centered approaches to contraceptive counseling : experimental evidence from urban Malawi

Karra, Mahesh; Zhang, Kexin - 2026

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Documentation paper: survey on fertility plans and attitudes among Pakistani university students preparing for emigration

Hamdy, Kareem; Hayo, Bernd - 2026 - This version: 29 May 2026

This paper provides a detailed description of the design and implementation of a survey on fertility plans and attitudes among Pakistani university students with a high likelihood of emigration. The survey is broadly representative of Pakistani students in higher education institutions (HEIs),...

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China's one-child exemptions and the spousal age gap

Gao, Jiani; Park, Min Sun; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2026

This paper examines the impact of exemptions to China's 1979 One-Child Policy on fertility and the spousal age gap. The exemptions, implemented at different times across provinces, created exogenous variation that we exploit using a staggered Difference-in-Differences design. Our analysis uses...

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China's one-child exemptions and the spousal age gap

Gao, Jiani; Park, Min Sun; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2026

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The economics of childlessness

Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2026

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The economics of childlessness

Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2026

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Subsidizing contraception : effects on contraceptive coverage, abortions, and births

Rosenberg, Sarah - 2026

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Partisan abortions

González, Libertad; Guirola, Luis; Zapater, Blanca - 2026

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Partisan abortions

González, Libertad; Guirola, Luis; Zapater, Blanca - 2023

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Measures of son preference and the treatment of girls in India

Kalsi, Priti - 2026

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Early-term abortion bans and sex selection after Dobbs v Jackson

Brown, Xin; Jergins, William - 2026

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Accelerating birth timing to access cash transfers? : evidence from households in extreme poverty

Carneiro, Pedro; Kraftman, Lucy; Rasul, Imran; Salvati, … - 2026

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Time constraints and family planning

Ejrnæs, Mette; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Valder, Franziska - 2026

Understanding how households use family planning to navigate constraints is important for policy design. We exploit a large Danish retirement reform that affected intergenerational time transfers to study how family planning responds to changes in time constraint tightness. Using administrative...

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Health insurance coverages and demand for modern contraceptive choices among reproductive-age women in Thailand

Nattanon Phonkacha; Piriya Pholphirul - 2026

Contraception is crucial for women's well-being and national development, which is particularly salient in Thailand's rapidly aging society where maximizing the health of the working-age population is essential. While health insurance is pivotal, this research moves beyond analyzing financial...

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The fertility reduction effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative by age and parity

Flynn, James; Stevenson, Amanda; Yeatman, Sara; … - 2026

We use restricted-access birth records from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to document the full age and parity fertility effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI). The CFPI provided access to every FDA approved method of contraception for free to anyone living below...

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Breaking the misery wheel? : fertility control, social mobility, and biological well-being in rural Spain (1835-1959)

Marco-Gracia, Francisco J.; González-Esteban, Ángel Luis - 2026

Fertility control strategies became widespread in rural Spain through the twentieth century: a significant number of parents decided to reduce their marital fertility once the advantages of control strategies became widely known. This paper explores the impact of those practices on children...

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The Confucian fertility paradox : education competition and ultra-low fertility in East Asia

Fang, Hanming; Liu, Chang - 2026

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Contraceptive access fertility and well-being in lower income countries

Rossi, Pauline; Valente, Christine - 2026

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Childlessness and the mariage market

Rossi, Pauline - 2026

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Uncovering son preference cultures from migrants under endogenous destination selection

Liu, Kai; Liu, Xiangqing; Zhang, Anwen; Deng, Zhongliang - 2026

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Women's political representation and fertility : evidence from gender quotas in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pechar, Stefanie; Hartwig, Renate; Priebe, Jan - 2026

We study how women’s political representation affects fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Leveraging the staggered adoption of reserved-seat gender quotas across the region and a heterogeneity-robust difference-in-differences estimator, we find that quotas increased women’s parliamentary...

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The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023

Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics" spread over the entire U.S. Combining newly digitized data on the roll-out of these clinics, full-count Census data, and administrative vital statistics, we find that birth...

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The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023

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Financial incentives, contraceptive use and abortion behavior

Almlund, Mathilde; Ejrnæs, Mette; Jørgensen, Thomas H. - 2025

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Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2025

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Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2023

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Balancing family and career : the effect of public childcare on fertility in Japan

Fukai, Taiyo; Toriyabe, Takahiro - 2025

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Reproductive technology and the child care sector : how access to oral contraception and abortion shaped workforce composition and quality

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2025

The composition and quality of the child care workforce may be uniquely sensitive to changes in the complementarities between home production and market work. This paper examines whether the expansion of oral contraceptives and abortion access throughout the 1960's and 1970's influenced the...

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Consistent patterns across birth parities? : psychological measures and birth parity transitions among Swedish men

Peters, Steffen; Barclay, Kieron; Mynarska, Monika; … - 2025

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Planning for family succession

Domnisoru, Ciprian; Miller, Robert Allen - 2025

Sons succeed their exiting CEO parents more often than daughters. How do entrepreneurial families reach this gender imbalance, and how does it affect the prospects of their firms and their offspring? Using Finnish administrative data on firms linked to population register data on shareholders...

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Planning for family succession

Domnisoru, Ciprian; Miller, Robert Allen - 2025

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Financial incentives, contraceptive use and abortion behavior

Almlund, Mathilde; Ejrnæs, Mette; Jørgensen, Thomas H. - 2025

We examine whether financial incentives affect fertility and family planning. We use a reform reducing child benefits paid to larger families together with Danish longitudinal register data on the universe of legal abortions and birth control pill purchases to address this question. We find that...

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Celebrating legacy : the intergenerational transmission of reproduction and human capital in Ming-Qing Chinese families

Hu, Sijie - 2025

In unified growth models, the evolving nexus between population dynamics and technological change is key to achieving sustained economic growth. This paper uses genealogical records of 23,449 males and their spouses to investigate this interplay-the intergenerational transmission of reproduction...

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Big sisters and child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa

Asker, Erdal; Rees, Daniel I.; Agüero, Jorge - 2025

We study the effect of having an older sister on the likelihood that girls in sub-Saharan Africa marry before reaching adulthood. Relying on the randomness of the firstborn sibling's sex, we show that having an older sister (as opposed to an older brother) reduces the likelihood of marrying...

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Different mental health disorders and childlessness : the importance of partnership status

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Sanna; Nisén, Jessica; … - 2025

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Fertility transitions in low- and middle-income countries : the role of preferences

Bongaarts, John - 2025

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Contraceptive concordance

Vincent, Sarah; Herrera, Catalina; Anukriti, S; Karra, … - 2025

This paper proposes an indicator of contraceptive concordance that identifies the alignment between stated preferences for contraception and concurrent contraceptive behavior. The proposed indicator departs from traditional approaches to measurement in family planning that infer concordance from...

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Contraceptive Concordance

Vincent, Sarah; Anukriti, S; Herrera, Catalina; Karra, … - 2025

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Empirical essays on fertility, female representation, and educational policies

Frattola, Edoardo - 2025

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Equilibrium effects of abortion restrictions on cohort fertility : why restricting abortion access can reduce human capital, social welfare, and lifetime fertility rates

Lawson, Nicholas; Spears, Dean - 2025

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