We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the … social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low …

fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … as other types of work) in addition to hours. Third, we use mother's fertility intentions as an alternative measure of …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births … incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. …

nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In … this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast … fertility effect and that high-severity advisories have a significant negative fertility effect. As the type of advisory goes …

this change. I find that women facing high unemployment rates in their mid-twenties tend to restrict their fertility below … environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the number of children women prefer and their actual … fertility has widened in Spain. The paper uses the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the tightening of …

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 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have …