,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations … suggest that, for every neonatal death, an additional 0.37 children are born, of whom 0.3 survive. -- fertility ; birth …

"Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …