data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

are that a greater bargaining power of parents, with respect to their adult children, and a greater involvement of adult … children in the production of the family good, are major contributory factors in increasing the number of children. …

conditioning on fertility treatments, (c) both labour supply regressions and quantity-quality-tradeoff regressions for children …

are approximately 4 less children born. Male job loss has no significant impact on completed fertility. …

, residing close to parents or in-laws are more likely to have children and that as mothers they are more likely to hold a …' children increases the probability of having to commute. We build a general equilibrium model of residence choice, fertility …

In the globalization era, adolescent pregnancies have become an important health issue. Teenage mothers have bigger … not use the family planning methods and prenatal care. They do not deliver the baby in the health care facility and … health care facilities to the poorer households. Such policies will reduce the adolescent pregnancies in the state. …