decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

fertility rates among young women aged 15-34 years. We exploit the fact that countrywide tariff reductions varied across … reduced fertility rate mostly in rural areas …

This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at …’s own education in delaying marriage, and that the relationship between her education and the timing of childbearing and of … marriage. We also shed light on the composite influence of parental education and death shocks on all the outcomes we examine …

Using household-level survey data from Côte d'Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a … significant relationship between fertility and electricity, but one that is only revealed when the model distinguishes between … rural and urban areas. Specifically, we find a positive association between electricity and fertility for urban households …

Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

-exclusive breastfeeding. Falsification exercises suggest that selection concerns such as selective fertility, mobility, and infant mortality …

variation to look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the …