The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …

assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 …

-tiered demographic system. A group of “insiders” were able to marry, and experienced both high marital fertility and high infant and …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with …