changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about … demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …

The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to … one of the rare attempts to elicit the growth potential of a reduction in the employment gap in a low-income country. …

, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

Armed conflict can shape reproductive behaviour as high child mortality and a lack of health services lead to higher … fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the … investigate whether the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers affects fertility in post-conflict settings. We study the case …

broadly, we find total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates of between 1 and 2 per cent across industries, although we find … no TFP growth in the mining sector. We also find that the sector with the highest TFP growth - agriculture - achieved …

and advocates generalized balanced growth and structural transformation to move Sub-Saharan African countries towards self …

capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in …