Purpose – This paper aims to examine certain factors that have contributed to the decline in fertility in the countries …/methodology/approach – Using data from the 2008 UAE Household Expenditure Survey, this paper analyzes the determinants of fertility using a Poisson … fertility count model. Findings – The results show that economic factors, in terms of the costs and benefits that families …

The transition of contraception use in Colombia was an important moment when health and fertility were tightly … contraception. Younger women displayed discontinuous behavior with a large proportion of total fertility (which itself has been …

This paper addresses the estimation of peer group effects on a fertility decision. The peer group is composed of …

children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach – Since the number of children … authors use also partner's education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero … her fertility rate in the Italian case. In those frameworks, the education variable is usually considered as a control …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …