Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …We provide a new explanation for sub-Saharan Africa’s slow demographic and economic change. In a model where children … die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality …

What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …

lacks fertility control and management framework. This forms the rationale for this study to access the trend of factors … Nigeria) and developed nations (Germany and United States). The trend analysis revealed that fertility rate, crude death rate …, birth rate, mortality rate, and life expectancy are the major determinants of rapid population growth rate, while youth …

This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative … the provision of key public services deteriorated. As a result, child mortality reduction in China and Vietnam was only …

-five mortality, but does not predict life-long bachelorhood. …

Ghana has the lowest under-five mortality rate in West Africa. Understanding why Ghana’s child mortality rate is lower … health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …

Most countries of the world are reducing infant and child mortality too slowly to meet the Millennium Development Goal … being one example. This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh, where the Young … mortality are estimated using a Cox proportional hazards model. Infant mortality is found to depend on biological factors …