This paper is in two parts. Part I is essentially a comparison with the results of the Pakistan Fertility Survey(1970 …-75) and basically a few themes have been thrown up. One is whether the 12-percent decline in fertility claimed by the PFS can … substantiated or refuted or made inconsistent with this four-in-one venture of Migration, Fertility and so forth. Part II goes into …

The main focus of this paper is to investigate the long run co-integration and short run dynamics between fertility … decline and development indicators in Pakistan. Bound Testing approach (ARDL) and VECM are applied on annual time series data … that long run co-integration and short run dynamics exist between total fertility rate and Human Development Indicators …

The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co … co-resident mothers in South Africa, not co-resident mothers are significantly more likely to be labour force … participants. The selection on co-residency, which excludes mothers who are labour migrants, therefore overestimates the negative …

show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …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 …

of an ageing population is to re-verse the demographic development by increasing the fertility rate. This is the subject … most se-verely affected by low fertility. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are described which attempt to … affect fertility and that those findings are not always in line with economic theory. …

This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … show that woman’s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females there …

grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor market decisions of women positively. We find that women in Germany …, residing close to parents or in-laws are more likely to have children and that as mothers they are more likely to hold a … provides access to free child care, it imposes costly spatial restrictions. We find that hourly wages of mothers residing close …

.36 millions over 4 years while military losses are estimated at 1.4 millions. In short, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the War. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … model of optimal fertility choice where households reaching their childbearing years on the eve of WWI face a loss of …