Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' desired fertility: there are many … to which women are empowered should matter for fertility choices. We point to evidence at both the macro and micro levels … of fertility is an important challenge for research …

larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' desired fertility: there are many … to which women are empowered should matter for fertility choices. We point to evidence at both the macro and micro levels … of fertility is an important challenge for research. …

evidence that a shock in fertility has a cost for a family as a whole. Mothers are more likely to live under less stable family … fertility comes from those countries with lower level of development …

which have occurred over the past decades; delayed entry into marriage and decline in fertility levels across both developed … marriage timing and fertility level differences using both economic and cultural factors. The results indicate that economic … denomination of countries. Religious denomination is also an important indicator of fertility level differences among both …

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 …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …