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 …

, 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 …