logistic model and taking into account individual, family, and local characteristics of the migrants, we find different …. Otherwise, each space involves different consequences to the family in terms of the relationships between migrants and the rest …

particulars of the family system fostered a culturally favored set of reproductive goals, in particular, a daughter as eldest … grandparents were present, especially when the family head was in the senior generation. By contrast, a son-first strategy was … favored when childbearing began in the conjugal phase of the cycle. This suggests grandparental influence on the junior couple …

-called gender revolution. We examine how gender role attitudes relate to childbearing intentions at the onset of family life … raise men’s expected fertility compared to men with intermediate gender attitudes and independently of family values. Among …Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins …

Foreign Spouses. Wives from China are found to have the lowest lifetime fertility of 1.4 children, mainly because they were … their second marriage. The effect of wife’s educational attainment on lifetime fertility turned out to be either modest or …

During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation … between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show … fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in …

studies. It is possible that individual stunting risks are also raised by high fertility in the community, partly because of … the impact of aggregate fertility on the local economy, but this issue has not been addressed in earlier investigations … idea that a child’s stunting risk may be raised by high fertility in the community. …