This paper analyzes and estimates the effects of income, education, unemployment level, fertility, location of residence and migration on the wife's probability of being employed. The study examines the research problem in relation to a neoclassical model of "new home economics" variety as well...

This paper examines a model of fertility behavior in which some women have excess capacity to bear children, while others have excess demand. This idea, which has not received adequate attention in econometric analyses of fertility behavior with the exception of Encarnacion's studies, underlies...

The issue of population growth and economic development is now close to a generation old. Population policy in most developing countries is, however, only slightly over a decade in duration and its impact is just beginning to be felt. Like an adolescent that is experiencing growing pains, the...