of mothers-in-law in the household may affect fertility decisions made by young couples. However, not much is known about … influence on family decisions pertaining to activities within the household. They were also likely to influence the number of …

proportion to existing fertility levels (grandfathering) instead of being allocated equally, population control can be made even …

This study comprehensively examines export tariff liberalization’s influence on women’s marital and fertility decisions …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set …, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence-or absence … South Asia. Modernization does not appear to reduce this differential response. For example, in South Asia the fertility …