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 … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

functions. Neonatal investments, made before cognitive endowments become apparent to parents, are unaffected. Fertility is …

-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 …

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 …

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 …