This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … both financial and altruistic reasons, is calibrated using data for the period 1920 to 2000. The long-run effects of the … disease, which depend heavily on parents' expectations about future mortality rates, are estimated for the years 2000 …

the creation of new countries in Central Asia— Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—with a …

precautionary motive for the demand for children so that fertility of prudent parents is expected to increase. …

Total fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly double that of any other region in the world. Evidence is mixed … on whether providing contraceptives has an impact on fertility. I exploit exogenous, intermittent reductions in … poor women experience increases in realized fertility of 7-10%. …

(output per capita) on fertility rate in the Philippines. Specifically, this presents the trend of income inequality (ineq …), labor productivity (lp) and fertility(tfr) in the Philippines from 1985 to 2009. The study uses Ordinary Least Square (OLS … negative relationship with fertility. Hence, an increase in this variable decreases fertility rate. This means that income …

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …

The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new … measure estimates the effect of policy on fertility and generates negative regression coefficients that well reproduce the …