Uzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances …. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper …

never far from the center of the national discussion in Uzbekistan. This paper summarizes the relationship between recent … from the Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan study. The panel design provides data on changes in well-being leading up …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …