mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Indonesia. It presents data on … presented in the Indonesia version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a … disaggregated health status and health services utilization that is organized by asset or wealth quintiles, a form that enables …

improve SA in Indonesia's health sector, particularly maternal and child health services. It gives an overview of common … lessons learned. It then analyses Indonesia's national regulatory and policy framework related to SA initiatives in the health …, challenges, and remaining gaps for improving SA in Indonesia's health sector. Finally, it provides evidence-based recommendations …

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with … impact of the reform on fertility outcomes. The impact appears to be large. The study estimates that women in rural areas …

. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European … countries, low overall fertility in Russia can be explained predominantly by a high prevalence of one-child families, despite …

Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …

providing basic services such as health care and education. Iran's fertility decline may have proceeded in two stages, the first …'s example shows how good public policy interventions in health (including family planning) and education can reduce fertility … beginning in the late 1960s. The Iranian government introduced a family planning program during the 1960s with explicit health …

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …