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A rolling blackout in Colombia in the early 1990s led to a rise in unplanned births, according to research by Amar Shanghavi and colleagues. What?s more, young women who became mothers after the blackout had worse outcom...Read more...
Thiemo Fetzer, Oliver Pardo and Amar Shanghavi
10 December 2013
This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus, generate ?mini baby booms?. We study a period of extensive power rationing in Colombia that lasted for most ...Read more...
18 November 2013