fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting imprint in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …

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 …

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 …

main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns …

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 …

development and it has been suggested that MF has significant beneficent impacts on contraceptive adoption and fertility. Thus … use and reduces fertility at the individual level, largely because MF empowers women. Pitt et al (1999) – henceforth PKML … especially when females borrow, and male borrowing decreases fertility, perhaps because fertility increasing income effects of MF …

such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …