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Follow-up: Do changes in childhood conditions predict fertility outcomes?

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Davide Piffer
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From Longevity to Low Fertility: Evidence Across Countries

From Longevity to Low Fertility: Evidence Across Countries

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August 24, 2025
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I used a Mundlak within–between mixed model to ask: when cohorts within the same country grew up in safer and richer times (higher life expectancy and log GDP), did they complete fertility at lower levels? The answer was yes, robustly so across multiple childhood exposure windows and placebo tests.

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