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 …

development and it has been suggested that MF has significant beneficent impacts on contraceptive adoption and fertility. Thus … use and reduces fertility at the individual level, largely because MF empowers women. Pitt et al (1999 – henceforth PKML … especially when females borrow, and male borrowing decreases fertility, perhaps because fertility increasing income effects of MF …

participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of women’s work status (i.e. having …

higher female labour participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of the women …

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

of a two-thirds reduction by 2015. Yet, some countries and regions have achieved impressive reductions, Kerala in India …. We conclude that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting …

The main focus of this paper is to investigate the long run co-integration and short run dynamics between fertility … decline and development indicators in Pakistan. Bound Testing approach (ARDL) and VECM are applied on annual time series data … that long run co-integration and short run dynamics exist between total fertility rate and Human Development Indicators …

- The results suggest that declining fertility rates and increases in the old-age dependency ratio have a significant impact … on labour effort and economic output. Labour effort is also found to explain variation in the fertility rate and economic … output. Economic output is found to effect labour effort and the fertility rate. Social Implications – The results derived in …