Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation
研究一项降低可治疗疾病死亡率（尤其是儿童死亡率）的健康创新如何影响女性生育、婚姻和劳动力市场行为，发现女性推迟生育、减少生育数量、降低结婚概率、增加劳动参与并改善职业地位。
Abstract We investigate women’s fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation, and an improvement in occupational status. Our results provide the first evidence that improvements in child survival allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that incorporates dynamic choices and reconciles our findings with existing models of behavior.