-data on mothers and their children in rural Malawi, our results suggest that higher mothers’ reported HIV risk reduces both …

moving target that changes within individuals over time. Nonetheless, in high-fertility contexts, changes in family size … address the appropriateness of this incongruity, the present study examines evidence for the sequential model of fertility … among a sample of young Malawian women living in a context of transitioning fertility. Using eight waves of closely spaced …

The paper uses data from the Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS2) to investigate the impact of fertility on … poverty in rural Malawi. We use two measures of poverty; the objective and the subjective. After accounting for endogeneity of … fertility by using son preference as an instrumental variable, we �nd that fertility increases the probability of being …

women in Malawi, allowing for a heterogeneous response depending on age and prior number of births. HIV/AIDS increases the … women or of young women who have already given birth. The resulting change in the distribution of fertility across age …

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility … geographical variation in the distribution of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Fertility is estimated for individual women, and measured as the … major finding is that HIV/AIDS reduces fertility. Uninfected women both give birth to and desire to have fewer children in …

retrospective data from the Family Fertility Surveys collected in the 1990s. Most of our predictions are confirmed by a multi …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to …

unobserved heterogeneity or state dependence, and (2) if fertility is exogenous to labor supply. Until recently, the consensus … was that unobserved heterogeneity is very important, and fertility is endogenous. But Hyslop (1999) challenged this. Using … that fertility is exogenous. Here, we extend Hyslop (1999) to allow classification error in employment status, using an …