Drill, baby, drill: Natural resource shocks and fertility in Indonesia

Margaret Brehm and Paul Brehm

Labour Economics, 2022, vol. 76, issue C

Abstract: We find that positive natural resource shocks lead to increased fertility in Indonesia by exploiting temporal variation in world oil prices and cross-sectional variation in oil endowments across regencies. Results are driven by women of all ages, by both first and higher order births, and we find no evidence of changes in birth spacing. Altogether, this indicates an increase in completed fertility. We present empirical evidence and cite prior literature demonstrating corresponding improvements in households’ economic outcomes, consistent with positive income effects on fertility in a developing economy.

Keywords: Natural resource shocks; Income effects; Fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 Q31 Q33 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102178

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