The fertility rate in Southeast and South Asia is relatively high compared to other region in the world, but the trend … tends to decrease rapidly. This paper aims to quantitatively explore the factors influencing fertility rate in Southeast and …-2008 panel data, this study found that the infant mortality rate is an important factor influencing the high fertility rate in …

lacks fertility control and management framework. This forms the rationale for this study to access the trend of factors … Nigeria) and developed nations (Germany and United States). The trend analysis revealed that fertility rate, crude death rate …

Son preference is usually revealed by both gender discrimination in relative care and son-targeting fertility stopping …-biased differential stopping fertility behavior. Contraceptive use is the primary tool to halt fertility following a male birth among … decline in fertility predicted by more schooling, higher age at first birth and urbanization along with other endogenous …

explaining fertility in advanced societies. In a micro perspective, the potential mismatch between gender equality (i.e. the …

causal structure governing the triad of high income, high human development and low fertility rates defined as the “developed … techniques. Empirical results show a causal long-run relationship between high income, high human development and low fertility …, fertility is negatively related with human development, but positively with income and – consistently with Galor and Mountford …

fertility choices such as sex selection, we present strong evidence that having a son increases the amount of gifts and …

This paper considers the implications of the financing of government services to children when fertility decisions are … biased away from the socially preferred result. The bias results in higher fertility rates and lower economic growth rates …

This paper provides empirical evidence on fertility determinants in Arab countries. Adopting a macro and micro … differentiated fertility and that female education mitigates high fertility. Child mortality and parent`s preferences for sons … positively affect fertility. By and large, demand for children is price and income inelastic. …

fertility is positive if child quantity is a closer complement than child quality to the consumption of goods. (ii) If, instead …, there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of …