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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the …
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of girls to boys. In India, till recently, the skewed sex ratio was treated as a Northern and Western Indian phenomenon …
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In December 1970, the General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1974 as World Population Year. Herewith, the Assembly was giving recognition to the growing involvement of the United Nations System in the population field and to the need for focussing international attention on different...
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …
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This article is devoted to investigation current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different … cognitive and emotional aspects of fertility behaviour (to give birth the next child). One of the important results of this …
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For centuries, scientists from various scientific fields have been leading lively discussions on the (bidirectional) relationship between population growth and economic growth. Particular attention was given to the nature of the population growth variable, i.e. whether it is an endogenous or...
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