estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

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 … child quality. Colombian national household survey data at rural and urban levels are used for the estimations. …

This empirical study brings together data on the local timing of the rural household responsability system reforms in … China from 1970 through 1987 and assesses the association of the local reforms with individual parity-specific fertility … changes as measured in the in-depth fertility survey. Fertility appears to have increased slightly in 1982 through 1984, but …

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