This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and a direct measure of poverty for … Indonesia, a country, which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility declines over recent decades. It … focuses on illustrating the sensitivity of the effect of fertility on household consumption with respect to the equivalence …

examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their … fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the … effects of family members’ fertility outcomes on individual fertility to assess the presence and the extent of inter …

fertility, marriage, migration, and social mobility. …

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. …

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing … fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the mechanisms underlying this reversal by analyzing data from 1975 to 2008 …

This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on … completed fertility in France. It analyses both the timing of first childbearing and the fertility reached at age 40. Different … timing of first childbearing, while periods of insecure employment delay fertility for women. Completed fertility is impacted …