Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial …, and lower realized and desired fertility today. We show evidence suggesting that the inherited pattern of low … rule out women's empowerment or improvements in human and physical capital as pathways for the fertility decline. These …

since 1870. A simple theoretical framework accounts for the possibly nonmonotonic variations of fertility in the course of …-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and …

I combine fertility histories from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey with a census of newly introduced legal …

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …

inflows and fertility rates. …