The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …

(India) and the fertility behaviours of their biological mother and mother-in-law. This information is based on scheduled …This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of married women aged 16-34 in rural Bihar … family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children, and then categorized …

With reference to substantial fall in fertility among illiterate women and rising of child schooling in India …