India using the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS). Endogeneity of fertility is addressed using instruments and … India. Once endogeneity of fertility is addressed, there is no evidence for a negative birth order effect or sibling sex …

-level prime-age mortality rate, obtained from the 1998 Population Census. The paper first tests the overall behavioural fertility …Recently there has been a surge in interest on how HIV/AIDS affects fertility in countries hit by the disease. In this … study, the effect of communal HIV/AIDS on fertility in rural Malawi is estimated using individual data from the 2004 Malawi …

achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express … adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the … intergenerational welfare comparisons. We show that, by incorporating altruism and fertility into the analysis, the estimated welfare …

.S. data between 1965 and 1995 show that altruism and fertility can easily double the value of mortality reductions obtained …This paper incorporates fertility and altruism into the ``value of life'' framework. Two dimensions of fertility and … altruism are important in evaluating life expectancy and health related gains. First, child mortality can be very important in …

What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and … die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …

household’s poverty.Using household level data from Nepal, we investigate the links between household’s fertility decisions and … composition is affected. Couples with fewer children host, on average, more other relatives. This result implies that fertility of …

with a fertility constraint in place is compared to a counterfactual experiment without the fertility constraint. The …

The ratio of women to men in India reveals excess female mortality by comparison with developed countries; this excess … is socially not naturally determined. Juvenile sex ratios combine excess male infant mortality in poor health … environments with excess female child mortality due to discrimination. Variations in sex ratios have been explained in terms of …