for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic …-term positive trend in life expectancies. Despite the fact that SSA as a whole is suffering a delayed and slow fertility transition … compared to other world’s regions, and despite evidence for halting or even reverting fertility decline in countries with …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the in- crease in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …

out of the la- bor force, differing levels of education, years of marriage and a number of demographic controls. We find …

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sul's (2007) test to fertility rates provides … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …

This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

This paper examines the effect of national income on the total fertility rate (children born per woman). We estimate … the effects on fertility of shocks to national per capita income using plausibly exogenous variations in oil price shock … negative and significant effect on the total fertility rate. Looking at the entire spectrum of the fertility distribution, the …

There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we … examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined … as the number of children per woman, is used as the main fertility trend variable. We use panel data from the United …