die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality …We provide a new explanation for sub-Saharan Africa’s slow demographic and economic change. In a model where children … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …

, but remained significantly negative. In the Japanese context, the association between the number of children and home …

children as old-age economic security, discouraging fertility. In particular, this fact may explain the contemporaneity of the …

completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … China's family planning policy and accordingly, proposes a new policy measure that integrates the policy variations more …

increase in the tax rate is found to raise the quantity of children, but lower the quality of adults; however, under a policy … children and the quality of adults. We also find that considering the ‘threshold’ effects of technological externalities, an …

’s decision to have children. Firstly, an outline of the potential effects of the increasing dependency ratio on the welfare state … explain why couples choose to have fewer children today. Lastly empirical work is considered which shows how policy changes …

In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select …. Our dependent variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent. Since the number of children … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also …

This is one of the first effort to make structural estimation of fertility in Russia.Normal distribution of random …

This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … pre-war generation, if the first child was a daughter, the total number of children tended to increase not only when the …