We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … child. We then show that female empowerment has the potential to promote the transition from a state of high fertility, low … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women …