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 …

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 …

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 …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain …, accelerating technological progress. This reinforcing loop results in the transition to a new fertility regime and accelerated …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …

19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …