Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …

Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the … coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide …

framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …

This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions … on fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger … at specified, randomly determined, levels of total fertility. These data allow one to isolate the causal effect of family …

to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …