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 … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …

fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to … might hasten the process. These features have to do with some of the preconditions under which fertility fell in other parts … of the world—such as economic development, social modernization, mortality decline and a rise in ‘natural’ fertility …

agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare …

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 …

The rate of fertility decline has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the Demographic and Health Surveys for … 21 SSA countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine the within-country fertility patterns by wealth, applying the … Bongaarts (2015) proximate determinants model. We find that overall, fertility has declined in SSA for the richest, but not for …

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 … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …