Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective
This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise in women's human capital, relative to men. The r...
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okr-10986-91682021-04-23T14:02:44Z Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective Albanesi, Stefania World Development Report 2012 This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise in women's human capital, relative to men. The resulting rise in the opportunity cost of children leads to a subsequent decline in desired fertility, generating a boom-bust response. We assess these predictions using newly digitized data on maternal mortality for 25 advanced and emerging economies for the time period 1900-2000. The empirical estimates suggest that the decline in maternal mortality contributed significantly to the baby booms and subsequent baby busts experienced by these economies in the twentieth century, and that the female-male differential in education attainment grew more in those countries that experience a sizable maternal mortality decline. 2012-06-26T15:40:08Z 2012-06-26T15:40:08Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9168 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Europe and Central Asia Middle East and North Africa Latin America & Caribbean East Asia and Pacific South Asia |
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This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise in women's human capital, relative to men. The resulting rise in the opportunity cost of children leads to a subsequent decline in desired fertility, generating a boom-bust response. We assess these predictions using newly digitized data on maternal mortality for 25 advanced and emerging economies for the time period 1900-2000. The empirical estimates suggest that the decline in maternal mortality contributed significantly to the baby booms and subsequent baby busts experienced by these economies in the twentieth century, and that the female-male differential in education attainment grew more in those countries that experience a sizable maternal mortality decline. |
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Albanesi, Stefania |
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Albanesi, Stefania |
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Albanesi, Stefania |
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Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective |
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Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective |
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Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective |
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Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective |
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Maternal Health and Fertility : An International Perspective |
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maternal health and fertility : an international perspective |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2012 |
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