. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

-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 … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women … outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

increased wage earning opportunities for women relative to those available for men. This paper tests both of these hypotheses by … estimating a model for the joint determination of wages of women and of their potential husbands, the probability that women are …

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 …

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 … indicators of the welfare of women and their children improve significantly in conjunction with the program-induced decline in …

The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … shocks (wife's infertility) significantly raises the probability of UTG response. Based on the percentage of women giving the … UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women … outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with …