Total fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly double that of any other region in the world. Evidence is mixed … on whether providing contraceptives has an impact on fertility. I exploit exogenous, intermittent reductions in … poor women experience increases in realized fertility of 7-10%. …

(output per capita) on fertility rate in the Philippines. Specifically, this presents the trend of income inequality (ineq …), labor productivity (lp) and fertility(tfr) in the Philippines from 1985 to 2009. The study uses Ordinary Least Square (OLS … negative relationship with fertility. Hence, an increase in this variable decreases fertility rate. This means that income …

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …

The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … measure estimates the effect of policy on fertility and generates negative regression coefficients that well reproduce the … history. As for the contribution of the policy to fertility transition, the measure explains a sizable level shift of …

Utilizing Malaysia data from 1973 to 2008, the study reveals that crime can be influenced by population, fertility …

how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high … is not too strong. However, the societal practice of polygyny increases aggregate fertility through two distinct channels …: (1) by increasing the number of marriages; and (2) by triggering fertility contagion: a woman, whether involved in a …

the financial variables. We find that improved access to credit increases fertility with an elasticity of around 30 …

Cross-sectional data yield the interesting result that fertility rates and home ownership rates tend to correlate … tests the link between the user cost of home ownership, which is the purchase price of housing, and total fertility rates … fertility considerably decreased when compared with the pooled OLS regression result without controlling for the above effects …