Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and...

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....

My research examines within-nation differences as well as cross-national differences in socially stratified outcomes, specifically the distribution of household incomes. I build on the considerable empirical evidence suggesting that group memberships are important factors in shaping one' s life...

Etwa Mitte der sechziger Jahre setzte ein Rückgang der Geburtenraten im westlichen Europa ein. In einigen Ländern wurde der Tiefpunkt schon in der ersten Hälfte der achtziger Jahre, in anderen aber auch erst später erreicht. Eine von mehreren Erklärungen für den Rückgang der Geburtenraten...