Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the two remains …

Despite extensive research, doubts remain regarding the degree of correspondence between prior stated fertility … preferences and subsequent fertility behavior. Preference instability is a factor that potentially undermines predictiveness …. Furthermore, if other predictors of fertility substantially explain fertility, then knowledge of preferences may contribute little …

low parities. While high fertility appears to be unimportant, the analysis supports the notion that socioeconomic factors …

This paper investigates the impact of female employment on fertility in two urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar … reason for fertility decline in Dakar. These findings illustrate how important it is to consider social gender-specific roles …

modernization and geared to promote women’s status, all segments of the population are rapidly changing their fertility behavior …

fertility. This decline has been a concern to many Eritreans. An important issue of concern has been whether the decline is … recent fertility change in Eritrea. The findings illustrate that although marriage delay might have played a role in the … decline of first births, a decline in fertility within marriage – partly due to cessation of childbearing after families …