"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … India. Policy interventions that affect these conditions could effectively impact the health and achievement of these …

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …

providing basic services such as health care and education. Iran's fertility decline may have proceeded in two stages, the first … and demographic objectives. Between 1967 and 1977, fertility declined-mainly in urban areas-to an average of 4 children … for childbearing. The fertility decline coincided with improvements in primary and secondary education, possibly affecting …

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …