fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … UN military compounds, we find that women living in the proximity of peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the …

This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility … theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise … in women's human capital, relative to men. The resulting rise in the opportunity cost of children leads to a subsequent …

children? / Ann Buchanan -- Falling fertility, ageing, and Europe's demographic deficit / Sarah Harper -- The impact on mothers …What is happening to fertility behaviour? -- No time for children? the key questions / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch …-child family and other changes in the low fertility countries of Asia / Gavin W. Jones -- Childlessness : choice and circumstances …