drive fertility behavior that generates sex-based differences in outcomes even when parents do not explicitly prefer boys … agricultural land. I confirm this theoretical prediction using panel data from rural households in India. This strategic fertility …

children as old-age economic security, discouraging fertility. In particular, this fact may explain the contemporaneity of the … political economy research these effects have been ignored, as the fertility choice is usually considered exogenous. This paper … pension systems, because as the family structure becomes weaker the fertility decreases, thus reducing the profitability of …

policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the … the return to education would trigger a virtuous cycle of fertility control, investment in education, poverty alleviation …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

Our present concern is with fertility determinants on Pakistan. Based on the household data co11cted in connection with … influence of various socio-economic variables on household fertility decision making. The analysis which follows is preliminary … in nature and can be characterised as taking a general socio-economic approach. Various fertility measures available from …

In this paper, I build on Blackmore (2000) to propose a formal theory of demographic transition (fertility decline) and …