Using the Agricultural Census 2003 and the Rice Household Survey 2008 for Indonesia, this paper analyzes the …

This paper examines whether the son preference and fertility behavior of Muslim couples respond to the risk of … exploits cross-sectional and time variation in the application of the Islamic inheritance exclusion rule in Indonesia: between … Muslim couples more affected by the exclusion rule exhibit stronger son preference, practice sex-differential fertility …

This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 … to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than …