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 …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … alternative sub-samples. -- Fertility ; household behavior ; children's well-being ; Colombia …

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 policy-induced 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 …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and … short-run. -- Intrahousehold allocation ; health ; human capital ; fertility ; quantile treatment effects ; stochastic …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia … participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …