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 … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in …

This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the … fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to … have stalled once they have begun, we nevertheless conclude that there are many underlying features of Africa today which …

The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In … this paper, we lay out some of the basic characteristics of the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa, relevant …

-level the impact of emigrants in the formation of political attitudes, fertility behaviour, and other aspects of culture. …

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 … peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the deployment period. Furthermore, peacekeeping improves child health and fosters …

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 …