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 …

The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new … dimension. According to these recent findings, not only the level but also the field of education has to be taken into account …. The field of education determines a great deal about labor market options and influences opportunities to combine …

infant mortality, female education levels and racial identity as important exogenous variables affecting fertility. It is … growth. Nevertheless, fertility is a variable that plays a crucial role in differences in demographic growth. We identify …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin-a proxy for … cultural imprint-influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

I combine fertility histories from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey with a census of newly introduced legal … abortion centers to estimate the impact of reducing the cost of abortion on pregnancy outcomes, gender, and neonatal health …. Contrary to previous studies, I identify the within-mother, behavioral response to improved access to abortion by comparing …

rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the sustained decline in mortality and subsequently fertility, it has major … the transition for women’s status in both high and low fertility populations by presenting evidence that women gain from …