We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be … difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal effect of ITNs on mortality and fertility. We show that the … ITN distribution campaigns reduced all-cause child mortality, but surprisingly increased total fertility rates in the …

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …

We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the … existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of … 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …