increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less … fertility by focusing on the UN intervention in Liberia. Combining DHS birth history data with information on road distance to … 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 … decline in desired fertility, generating a boom-bust response. We assess these predictions using newly digitized data on …

experience / Lorna Benton and Marie-Louise Newell -- Declining fertility, television and the (mis) representation of motherhood … 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 …

Many authors argue that societal fertility levels are a function of changing gender relations, but the mechanism behind … gender role attitudes influences fertility: a great variation in attitudes among potential partners causes uncertainty and … regressed on the level of fertility. Attitudes are computed through factor analysis and capture opinions towards the gendered …