sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

We study the effects of state and federal dependent health insurance mandates on marriage rates of young adults, ages … increased insurance coverage rates, but also came with unintended implications for the marriage decisions of young adults …. Almost all state mandates explicitly prohibited marriage as a condition of eligibility, thereby directly discouraging …

We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be … difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the causal effect of ITNs on mortality and fertility. We show that the … ITN distribution campaigns reduced all-cause child mortality, but surprisingly increased total fertility rates in the …

for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic …-term positive trend in life expectancies. Despite the fact that SSA as a whole is suffering a delayed and slow fertility transition … compared to other world’s regions, and despite evidence for halting or even reverting fertility decline in countries with …

gender equality, family planning, low fertility, freedom of spouse choice, older ages at marriage, and the recognition of … sexual relations and childbearing outside marriage. I also discuss how developmental idealism produces resistance against it …

replacement level of fertility two decades ahead of the all-India target year of 2011 and India is likely to achieve the … marriage ages will be maintained. But this is a temporary respite. (d) Other things being equal on the economic front …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …

In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions … the early migration years differs greatly by broad area of origin. -- immigrant fertility ; fertility disruption ; recent …