Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate … to a country without fertility restrictions. Using American Community Survey data (2010-2020), we compare the …

This article is devoted to investigation current demographic policy in Russia impact on fertility of different … cognitive and emotional aspects of fertility behaviour (to give birth the next child). One of the important results of this …

labor income tax on the fertility rate and per capita consumption. The effects on per capita consumption are opposite in the … hence stimulates per capita consumption. -- child allowance ; child rearing ; endogenous fertility ; wage income tax …

been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility … relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country …

Whether China's low fertility rate is the consequence of the country's strict population control policy is a puzzling … question. This paper attempts to disentangle the Chinese population control policy's impacts on the fertility rate from …

In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the …

reduction in fertility would contribute to Chinese human capital enhancement. However, the quantity-quality tradeoff may be not …