sciences—and—to focus on the effects of woman-related demographics, namely fertility rates. I test the hypothesis that … different countries over time, when fertility rates decline, we observe a growth in democracy. In the theoretical framework …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

marriage has declined to 5.1 percent in 2015 from 10.0 percent in 1970; Fertility rate also declined from 3.65 percent in 1950 …