household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis …Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition …

driver of the fertility transition. Our results indicate that higher education of women, female employment in non … fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change … can explain this slow transition. For this end, we analyze the determinants of fertility transitions across the developing …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the …, resulting in higher fertility. …