mirror those of breastfeeding with respect to gender and its interactions with birth order and ideal family size. Our results … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for …

capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the … number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … and women were each asked about their reproductive histories. We document a number of interesting differences in fertility …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … growth regime in which lower net fertility is associated with the acquisition of human capital and improved living standards …

the 1870-1930 period. We proxy the gender wage gap with the level of per capita income and the cost of disenfranchisement …. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital …