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 …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

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 …

differences across groups defined by location (rural or urban), types of TANF-eligible family, type of family structure, and race … and ethnicity. The fifth reports few differences across race and ethnic groups. As our experience with TANF-style welfare …

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 …