Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1989 to 1999, we examine the impact of family cap policies, which deny incremental welfare benefits, on out-of-wedlock birth rates. We use the first five states that were granted waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services to implement...

The demographic challenges related on the growth and the change of the age structures, are such as few African countries will be able to achieve the goals of the development millenium of in 2015. The demographic variables play, beside the social, economic, political and cultural variables a...