Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …

The fertility differentials among caste groups in Andhra Pradesh are examined in the context of characteristics and … interaction hypotheses, using the second National Family Health Survey data. Multivariate analyses on cumulative fertility, birth … intervals and contraceptive use show that differentials between the caste groups persist even after controlling for the other …

the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No. 415]. …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …

This paper first presents evidence to show that in recent years there has been a substantial fall in fertility among … schooling among illiterate parents is inversely related to family size and positively related to contraceptive use. By … connecting these two pieces of evidence, the paper argues that fertility is falling and child schooling is rising among …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …

-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight the structural linkages between marriage … age patterns, contraception, antenatal and delivery care, children’s immunization and fertility. The parametric … strong interlinkages between fertility, contraception, marriage age patterns, antenatal and delivery care, and immunization …

of non-demographic data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapping to test out the presence of regional … clustering. Regional analysis reveals that economic, social and health indicators display spatial patterns as strong as fertility … rates. All recent models of fertility incorporate a significant geographical component (using dummy regional variables or …