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 …

studies. It is possible that individual stunting risks also are raised by high fertility in the community, partly because of … an impact of aggregate fertility on the local economy, but this issue has not been addressed in earlier investigations … idea that a child’s stunting risk may be raised by a high fertility in the community …

Researchers often face a level-of-analysis problem when investigating the implications of fertility transitions for … schooling. Despite primary interest in macro-level outcomes, it is at the micro-level that the links between fertility and …-level inferences are unclear. This paper proposes a framework for moving from micro- to macro-level associations between fertility and …

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …