higher female labour participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of the women …

participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of women’s work status (i.e. having …

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 … completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …

Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the …

development and it has been suggested that MF has significant beneficent impacts on contraceptive adoption and fertility. Thus … use and reduces fertility at the individual level, largely because MF empowers women. Pitt et al (1999 – henceforth PKML … especially when females borrow, and male borrowing decreases fertility, perhaps because fertility increasing income effects of MF …

Settlement Understanding; DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place (DSU … date. This lack of interest in Members’ proposals and negotiations is rather astonishing, particularly if judged in the … long been neglected. Only recently, a certain academic interest in these negotiations and in the submitted proposals can be …

Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …