Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

find that all age groups except teenagers show a positive fertility response to the policy. The results suggest that the … policy may have elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative growth in fertility of maternal age … around family formation. …

of a two-thirds reduction by 2015. Yet, some countries and regions have achieved impressive reductions, Kerala in India … show gender discrimination in Andhra Pradesh, notably toward girls with only female siblings, which is absent from Kerala …. We conclude that raising service levels across India toward the levels found in Kerala is a necessary step toward meeting …

Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …

What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …

this paper, we study the relationship between women employment and domestic violence in India. We used a nationally … representative database, National Family Health Survey Data III (2005–06), for our analysis. We found that employed women are more … gender norm leads to increased domestic violence. …

This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 … gender issues, was that girls were more likely to be neglected than boys. The analysis confirmed this hypothesis. In respect … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …

whether such attitudes also lead to gender discrimination in primary education. While there is a vast literature on inter …-household gender discrimination in education, studies of discrimination between siblings is comparatively rare. This paper asks the …