to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than …

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 …

determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

, randomly determined, levels of total fertility. These data allow one to isolate the causal effect of family size on the desired …India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …

fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and … death, while contributing to increases in the general fertility rate. Estimates of the relationship between economic …

care, abortion, Federally subsidized organized family planning clinics, maternal and infant care projects, community health …

fertility rate-- using time series methodology. I believe that I have shown that infant mortality and fertility are not … an increase in per capita real income triggers a subsequent decline in fertility.This dynamic nexus between changes in …