. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

There is an inverse association between income per adult and fertility among countries, and across households this … inverse association is also often observed. Many studies find fertility is lower among better educated women and is often … policies that change fertility, if they are independent of parent preferences for children or the economic conditions which …

decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

fertility differential between these populations was not due to differences in other population characteristics. Rather it was … immigrants also had higher fertility than the native-born population, but to a much larger extent than for the Irish, this higher … fertility could be explained by the population characteristics of these groups. …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with …

the world. The German Knappschaften were formed in the medieval period to provide sickness, accident, and death benefits … related occupations, and the range and generosity of benefits had expanded considerably. Each Knappschaft was locally … controlled and self-funded, and their admirers saw in them the ability to use local knowledge and good incentives to deliver …

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

suggesting that a baby born at the clinic is heavier than a newborn baby drawn randomly from the general population. …