, India - summarizes current mortality, fertility, migration, family size and household characteristics; examines bivariate … (children mortality, fertility, family planning, etc.); presents multivariate models of demographic behaviour and causes of …

This paper analyzes the current migration in rural population in the south of Veracruz state (Mexico). We identify … logistic model and taking into account individual, family, and local characteristics of the migrants, we find different …. Otherwise, each space involves different consequences to the family in terms of the relationships between migrants and the rest …

approach to children provides this. Each child’s needs change as it grows, and births are sequential. Each child has the same …-resident children allow economies of scope in child care. Birth order effects emerge from the changing benefits and costs. …

children provides this. Each child has the same genetic make-up and parents do not favour a child based on its birth order … developmental stages, and the benefits of parental investment differ across these stages. Parental time investment in children …

controlling for household fixed effects. Family size effect is also distinguished from the sibling sex composition effect …The paper explores the effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in … India using the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS). Endogeneity of fertility is addressed using instruments and …

the fertility transition based on changing preferences over the quality and quantity of children, and somewhat less so …Discussions of cross-sectional fertility heterogeneity and its interaction with economic growth typically assume that … the poor have more children than the rich. Micro-data from 48 developing countries suggest that this phenomenon is very …

We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in … accumulation of children over the lifecycle and for the marriage of single mothers. We use the model, in conjunction with US survey … data, to explore the impact of marital prospects on the fertility decisions of unmarried women. We find that the decline …

activity and family dynamics to calibrate the model for the 1970s, and then compute the effects of liberalizing access to …