Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set …, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence—or absence … South Asia. Modernization does not appear to reduce this differential response. For example, in South Asia the fertility …

The aim of this research is to build on a theory for explaining economic development in a (neoclassical) growth model … with endogenous fertility. The economy is comprised of overlapping generations of rational and identical individuals and … perspective, the distinguishing feature of this work is that endogenous fertility per se is able to explain the existence of low …