fertility rates among young women aged 15-34 years. We exploit the fact that the countrywide tariff reductions that varied … areas, compared to districts that were less exposed to tariff cuts. Fertility rate declined in districts that were … and women, thus increasing their prospects of marriage, the decline in fertility points towards a quantity quality trade …

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …

endowed with full control over their fertility but, differently from other studies, the degree of agents' altruism which … mainly affects fertility choices are allowed to change with the standard of living. We relate agents' altruism to the …

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …

associated with fertility behavior and use of the local natural-resource base are identified. Three are shown to be pronatalist … that one of the externalities may even provide an invidious link between fertility decisions and the use of the local … natural-resource base. The fourth type of externality is used to develop a theory of fertility transitions in the contemporary …

interventions; (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments; and (4) the …

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 …

fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We … the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and … for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle, consistent with stopping behavior. The result is robust …