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 …

. Discussion in this paper limit on antenatal care, place of delivery and contraceptive use which are only reproductive health …

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 …

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 …' children increases the probability of having to commute. We build a general equilibrium model of residence choice, fertility …, fertility and labor market outcomes. We simulate our model to analyze how women's decisions regarding residence, fertility, and …

.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 …

partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …