There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines … the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using panel data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. We … find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …

appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with … poverty reduction. …

This paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, we analyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality …

This article examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment … countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways involving positive feed-backs that create poverty traps, into which …

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility … and quantum of fertility. Breaking with a market-oriented and laissez-faire approach to work and family issues, the last …

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

between union instability and fertility in Brazil which has been long understudied. Using the example of Brazil it … fertility in Brazil using multiprocess event history analysis techniques as developed by Lillard (1993). This type of … countries mainly due to the lack of data. The paper will demonstrate the positive effect of union instability on fertility. …