replacement level of fertility two decades ahead of the all-India target year of 2011 and India is likely to achieve the … of some of the developed countries of the world. The population growth rate has declined to about 1 per cent per annum in …,553,000 in 2001), the growth (if any) in the next half a century will be very negligible. The crude death rate declined from …

transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth …This study provides a unified growth theory to correctly predict the initially negative and subsequently positive … relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic …

This paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The … number of children. It contributes to the understanding of the negative relation between fertility and education, shows why … parents may demand children even if the return is negative, and explains why fertility might rise with increasing income when …

What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …

Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must … returns on educational in- vestments can be weaker than the private returns when the optimal population growth rate is …

fertility transition: a mortality transition that is not accompanied by improving morbidity causes slower demographic and … of population health and economic growth unless morbidity falls with mortality. …The link between the mortality and epidemiological transitions is used to identify the effect of the former on the …

We investigate the empirical relationship between child mortality and fertility across 46 low and middle income … countries. Specifically, we model the effect of mortality expectations and interdependent fertility preferences on fertility …. The direct marginal effect of mortality expectations on fertility is larger than zero but less than unity. This implies …

Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …

income is high. Furthermore, the model can account for the decline in fertility when the risk of infant and child mortality …This paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The … number of children. It provides an alternative explanation to the negative relation between fertility and the education of …