. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European … countries, low overall fertility in Russia can be explained predominantly by a high prevalence of one-child families, despite …

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with … impact of the reform on fertility outcomes. The impact appears to be large. The study estimates that women in rural areas …

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 …

considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape …

, and good match between individuals. They then examine fertility decisions made in Vietnam between 1976 and 1996. The … years moreover do better both in health and education. While parental characteristics seem to affect fertility choices and …

that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …