women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant …

individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels … age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater …

by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from …Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected …

The literature generally points to a negative relationship between female education and fertility. Citing this pattern …, policymakers have advocated educating girls and young women as a means to reduce population growth and foster sustained economic … and social welfare in developing countries. This paper tests whether the relationship between fertility and education is …

community HIV prevalence. We show that HIV-infected women have significantly lower fertility. In contrast to Young (2005 …), however, we find that local community HIV prevalence has no significant effect on non-infected women's fertility …The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines …

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have … literature linking them to changes in childbearing and women's economic outcomes …

availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …. This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on … fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have …