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

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 … response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed …

year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major health problems, the average life expectancy will continue to rise during …

framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …

comprising fertility, mortality, and migration. [Working Paper No. 322] …

upazilas were selected from adjacent programme areas to serve as control. The study included 2,800 mothers, 1,440 children with …

special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations. …

In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children … than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …