Title: Fertility response to natural disasters
First published: 2009
Description: "The event of a natural disaster, and being directly affected by it, brings a large shock to life-cycle outcomes.  In addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income.  This paper analyzes three high mortality earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999.  There is evidence of a positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality.  The results in this study are consistent with those of other studies that also find a positive fertility response following exposure to a disaster.   "--World Bank web site.
Subjects: Natural disasters, Fertility. Human, Earthquakes
LC classification: HG3881.5.W57