that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …

. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth …

most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate … that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the … fertility, and that they are highly pro-poor in their impact. While the rest of the world wrestles with the complexities of …

During Vietnam's two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its …

This paper studies the effect of subjective beliefs about HIV infection on fertility decisions in a context of high HIV …-to-child transmission, on fertility and child mortality. It develops a model of women's life-cycle, in which women make sequential fertility …, and measures of subjective beliefs about own HIV status. The model successfully fits the fertility patterns in the data …