Using the Agricultural Census 2003 and the Rice Household Survey 2008 for Indonesia, this paper analyzes the …

This paper examines whether the son preference and fertility behavior of Muslim couples respond to the risk of … exploits cross-sectional and time variation in the application of the Islamic inheritance exclusion rule in Indonesia: between … Muslim couples more affected by the exclusion rule exhibit stronger son preference, practice sex-differential fertility …

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the … considerable share of women in Indonesia works in the labor market in order to finance basic expenditures on their children …