female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …

Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …

In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the …

We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the … allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect children's activities, thus enabling us to make a distinction between … parameters of our models. We find that the effect of fertility has a large downward bias in naive models. The marginal effect of …

It has been widely documented in patrilocal and strongly patrilineal settings in India that the presence and influence … of mothers-in-law in the household may affect fertility decisions made by young couples. However, not much is known about …

This paper analyses urban-rural disparity in family planning use in India and in its constituent states and Union … Territories during 1992-1993 through 2019-2021. The analysis reveals that urban-rural disparity in family planning use in India …

India recorded the highest of repeated induced abortion in the world. Literature on it is scanty and the role of son … socio-economic groups in India. Also, for the first time, the study gives a comprehensive sociological perspective to …