Background: Maternal and neonatal mortality is high in South Asia. Recent studies have identifed factors such as adolescent female fertility, healthcare spending is reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. The objective of this study is to examine the efect of adolescent female fertility and...

This study applies Granger causality tests within an error-correction framework to analyse the relationship between female employment and fertility in six South Asian countries. Of the six countries, we only find evidence of a co-integrating relationship between fertility and female employment...