consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …

This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms …’s support for school building has been a major factor behind Ghana being on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of … that little learning can take place. Special attention needs to be paid to these least-privileged schools if Ghana is to …

examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference …

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using …

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …