, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline … models explaining these aggregate trends are surveyed. The relentless flow of technological progress and its role in shaping …

marriage and motherhood. -- abortion ; contraception ; fertility ; marriage …

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 …

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world …. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find that long run income growth significantly and robustly reduces … fertility. Further analysis suggests that young women's fertility is particularly affected and that women's education; age of …

fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a …

nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … level of social norms (including fertility preferences) that is transmitted from the migrant to the household. Second …

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent … rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …