most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate … that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the … fertility, and that they are highly pro-poor in their impact. While the rest of the world wrestles with the complexities of …

This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility … survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the …

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 …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …