Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were …

During Vietnam's two decades of rapid economic growth, its fertility rate has fallen sharply at the same time that its … the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys and instruments for family size using the distance to the nearest family …