This paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The … number of children. It contributes to the understanding of the negative relation between fertility and education, shows why … parents may demand children even if the return is negative, and explains why fertility might rise with increasing income when …

Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …

Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and …

systems had a significant immediate effect on health dynamics proxied by infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings …

There is evidence that fertility is positively correlated with infant mortality, and that a child`s chance of surviving … parental decisions as a problem of choice under uncertainty, the paper shows that fertility and infant mortality are most … improve with the amount they spend for the health, nutrition, etc. of each child that they put into the world, then fertility …