-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 …

. 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 …. However, the program appears to have significantly raised boys' participation in the labor force. …

Two explanations for the weakening of the nuclear family are increased state support of poor unmarried mothers, and … 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 …