Over the past decades, due to a combination of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancies, most … the future. This paper investigates the relationship first between fertility rate and infant mortality rate and second … overall economic activity and the labor market on the bivariate relationship between fertility and mortality rates, the …

This study is the first attempt at placing the analysis of fertility in a temporal dynamic framework in the case of a … developing Asian economy such as Thailand by binding the relationship between fertility and its determinants within a … factor in bringing fertility down in the longer term cannot be denied. However, in the short to longer term, our findings …

Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and …

This paper examines one avenue through which female autonomy impinges on fertility and child mortality in developing … decisions of a couple regarding fertility and allocation of resources for the healthcare of their children are made within a … point utility of mothers is shown to reduce fertility and also to reduce child mortality rates. Paradoxically, the increase …

effects of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an … completed fertility had increased from its all time low in the nineteen seventies. …

This paper develops and estimates an empirical model of the interplay between fertility and economic development. Using … interplay between fertility and output obtained from single cross-country regressions are biased downward because that method of …

temporarily or permanently affect fertility in small open economies. This article tests the Becker-Barro model with relevant data … that government subsidies for having children have a strong positive effect on fertility, while the provision of public … is only weak support for the hypothesis that real interest rates positively influence fertility. …

This note reviews and evaluates Tasiran's (1995) claim that estimated female wage effects on Swedish fertility dynamics …

This paper estimates a reduced form neoclassical model of Canadian fertility dynamics using an econometric technique … in Canadian fertility dynamics as well as other socio-demographic features of Canadian women. However, we fail to totally … characterize the important drops in the fertility rate that took place for this era. …

Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment - rather … than just a selective citation - of the extensive fertility literature generated by Easterlin, and a complete inventory of … fertility, but is less clear regarding the source(s) of differences in material aspirations, and suggests that the observed …