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, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa … minorities. This paper presents how the database can be used to compare the Africa region to global patterns, analyse divergence … across the continent, and explore the implications for our understanding of inclusive growth in Africa. …

of the world—such as economic development, social modernization, mortality decline and a rise in ‘natural’ fertility …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 …

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 …

have greater access to health clinics and police, so are more able to control their fertility and secure external support …

planning aid to countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is higher than aid to non-SSA countries, and that high fertility rate …