Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

Since 1960 South Africa has seen a steep fall in fertility levels and currently the total fertility rate is the lowest … on the African continent. Given the high prevailing levels of fertility in African countries, a better understanding of … the factors behind the fertility transition can be valuable not only for South Africa, but also more widely for other …

This study examines the effect of abolishing user fees from health services on fertility and educational attainment as … substitute fertility and increase educational investments. The absence of treatment effects among children not subject to the …

during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

malaria eradication on fertility and child survival. Malaria eradication increased the number of live births through … increasing age specific fertility and causing an earlier first birth. The effect of malaria on the transition time to higher …