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 …

fertility has widened in Spain. The paper uses the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the tightening of … this change. I find that women facing high unemployment rates in their mid-twenties tend to restrict their fertility below … family and of achieving preferred fertility. Temporary contracts work in the opposite direction. Findings are robust to the …

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 …

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 …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family …

had little effect on the probabilities of entering into marriage and parenthood at a young age. In contrast, both the … marriage and motherhood. …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …