BREAD Working Paper No. 627, December 2023

Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falezan, Marie Christelle Mabeu, and Pauline Rossi   Abstract Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial rule? We study the case of Burkina Faso, considered the […]