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 …

This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … incidence of child labor doubles for some periods. The level of fertility falls in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, but …

We develop an overlapping generation model to examine how the relationship between status concerns, fertility and … facts about fertility during the "great transition". …

Many studies report empirical relationship either between fertility and labour supply or, between health and labour … market outcomes. In this paper, an extension of these ideas involves explicitly considering how fertility and health affect … results indicate that: (i) fertility and health status are significantly interrelated, thus separate estimations of fertility …

This paper studies the impact of culture on the fertility decisions of adolescent women. To identify this effect, we … use the epidemiological approach, exploiting the variations in fertility rates of teen women by ancestor’s home country …. Then, differences in fertility rates of adolescent women by national origin can be considered as supporting evidence of the …

Economic theories of fertility decline often center on the rising net price of children. But empirical tests of such … household’s own children. Using a panel dataset of white Southern households between 1850 and 1870, I measure the fertility … household fertility rates. To further corroborate these results, I measure the fertility response of households to another shock …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …