and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers …

worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The … with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … investment in the human capital of children, although they occasionally estimate the short-run association with the adoption of …

interventions, (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments, and (4) the … consequences for women and their families of policies which change the timing as well as number of births. -- Health ; fertility …

interventions; (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments; and (4) the … consequences for women and their families of policies which change the timing as well as number of births. -- Health ; fertility …

affected enrollment. Poor children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the …

Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women … private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling … for additional births Declines in fertility have proceeded unevenly, first across the high income countries, and more …

decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these …

policies that change fertility, if they are independent of parent preferences for children or the economic conditions which … of children in the family than would be expected due to variation in fertility which is accounted for by parent education …There is an inverse association between income per adult and fertility among countries, and across households this …

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …