past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different …

with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is … stronger at higher birth order and also reflects in differential spacing patterns. Women's education appears to be the …

can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from … effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in …. Analyzing mechanisms, we find that drought does not affect common factors of high fertility such as marriage timing. It operates …

they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can be …

development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

fertility in high HIV-prevalent SSA countries induced by the fall in education and human capital investments following the drop …-to-quality of children. This result suggests that the current evidence on fertility halting and declining education in high HIV … for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic …

exiting formal education. …

pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …