the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

This paper analyzes household fertility and child occupation decisions in a risky environment. Fertility decisions are … made fi?rst, when only the distribution of shocks is known. When shocks are realized and fertility is ?xed, parents adapt … by allocating children?s occupations, i.e. school, paid work and domestic chores. Fertility is decreasing with the shock …

In this paper I seek to identify and estimate the causal effect of fertility on family income. I analyze the …

The gender of the first two children is used as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of fertility on … to the family in old age. Thus, having two girls can proxy an exogenous increase in fertility. Using household micro data … from the 1993-94 Indian Quinquennial Survey (5th wave), estimation results indicate that fertility significantly positively …

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …

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 …