low parities. While high fertility appears to be unimportant, the analysis supports the notion that socioeconomic factors … underpin the problem of low birth weight in sub-Saharan Africa. …

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. …

-Saharan Africa. Data were drawn from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in eight countries over the period 1987-1999. Multiple … that increases in schooling at lower levels alone bear only somewhat on the prospects for fertility decline among …

. Gender is the key to understanding fertility decisions within all three levels. Migration from Africa to France is considered … evaluate the impact of migrating from specific types of countries on fertility post-migration: Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, and …This paper evaluates fertility and migration theory in order to further understand the impact of migration on fertility …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …

-order birth rates jointly, with a common unobserved factor. The corresponding education-fertility relationships among men, however … corresponding effects for men are also positive, but not more strongly positive than those for women. These results may suggest that … we should not take for granted that women’s education generally reduces fertility, and that it does so because of …

effect of income and an indirect effect of job security satisfaction on childbearing intentions, whereas for women no direct …

Maternity leave policies are designed to ease the tension between women’s employment and fertility, but whether they … actually play such a role remains unclear. We analyze the individual-level effects of maternity leave on employment outcomes … and on second conception rates among Russian first-time mothers from 1985-2000 using retrospective job and fertility …

, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small. …