woman can only imperfectly control her fertility. Dynamics in the model are captured by several forms of state and duration … this study is the first wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS 1), a retrospective panel. In my research, I use the …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia … participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …

the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and …

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 …

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

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

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 …

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