Response to Comment from Bertoli and Gazeaud on "Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility"
Simone Bertoli and Jules Gazeaud (subsequently BG) provided comments on our paper, “Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International M igration: Effects on OriginCountry Fertility” (American Economic Review, October 2025). Their comments fall into two categories: 1.) data availability and 2.) interpretation of our coefficients. We ad dress ea ch of their comments.
This paper responds to:
Bertoli, S., J. Gazeaud. 2026. Comment on “Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International M igration: Effects on OriginCountry Fertility”. I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 327. Institute for Replication.