Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263481 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15265
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world. Causal inference is enabled through proxying income windfalls by oil price shocks in oil rich versus oil poor provinces. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find that long run income growth significantly and robustly reduces fertility. Further analysis suggests that young women's fertility is particularly affected and that women's education; age of marriage, and the age of first birth, but not the use of contraceptives, are among the important mechanisms.
Subjects: 
economic development
population fertility
Africa
JEL: 
I15
J13
O15
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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