Session 1702
Economics of Fertility and Women's Economic Activity

Chair: Deborah Levison, University of Minnesota

1. The Effects of Expanding Female Economic Opportunities on Fertility: Causal Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in BangladeshShamma Alam, Dickinson College; Claus C. Portner, Seattle University.

2. Family Planning and Women’s Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence from Urban MalawiMahesh Karra, Boston University; Daniel Maggio, Rutgers University; David Canning, Harvard University.

3. Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the EvidenceMahesh Karra, Boston University; Joshua Wilde, Oxford University.

4. Women in Iran’s economy: How do they contribute to producing goods and services? (a study based on Iran's NTA and NTTA report for 2018)Majid Koosheshi, Associate Professor of Demography and leader of Iran's NTA team, University of Tehran; Gretchen Donehower, University of California, Berkeley; Reza Reyhan, University of Tehran; Mehdi Khalili, PhD student.

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