Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, women who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second, the risk of children dying is higher among women who have been pregnant more times. Using a unit...

It is often argued that a rapid rise in educational attainment of women, an increase in the age at marriage and an increase in the age at first birth are key features of demographic transition in any country. Education is the prime catalyst in this process because increases in educational...

In this paper we examine the trends in the prices of natural resource commodities in Australia. The existing literature predicts rising prices for minerals, indicative of scarcity. We present a menu of tests to characterise the observed trends in the prices of 12 resources and do not find any...

Evidence from most developing countries suggest that parents have a preference for sons over daughters. This is know as son preference. This paper uses individual level unit record data to test the son preference hypothesis in South Africa. We use an accelerated hazard model to estimate the...

In this paper we use child level data from Pakistan to estimate the probability of the child dying and the number of days the child was alive before dying. We find that overall girls have a higher probability of surviving and when we look at disaggregated data we find that relative to boys,...

This paper examines the effects of individual, household and community characteristics on two aspects of fertility among South African women the age at first conception and the number of pregnancies. We find that education has a significant effect in pushing back the age at first conception and...

Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, woment who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second, the risk of children ying is higher among women who have been pregnant more times. Using a unit...