that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …

developed from the first family planning and fertility surveys conducted in developing countries, which found a disconnect …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …

Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set …, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence—or absence … South Asia. Modernization does not appear to reduce this differential response. For example, in South Asia the fertility …

This study discusses fertility trends and variation in countries that have completed the transition from high to around …-replacement fertility in the 1950s-1980s - especially in Europe, East Asia and North America - and summarises the key findings that are … relevant for the countries with a more recent experience of fertility declines towards replacement level. A central finding is …

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the … transitioning countries from those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by …