also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …

This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child …

Infertility currently affects over 6 million individuals in the United States. While most health insurance plans … examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference … birth rates for women over 35, and these results are robust to a number of specification tests. …

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data …-force participation of women does have an important effect on the spacing of pregnancies, although the effect is less pronounced in the … 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 … that women benefit from labor force participation, and that this gain exceed financial benefits from earnings. However, the … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …

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 …

This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out …

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education …