This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … outcomes are outlined, revealing that marriage has a positive link with child quality and fertility has a negative link with …

The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …

. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

There is an inverse association between income per adult and fertility among countries, and across households this … inverse association is also often observed. Many studies find fertility is lower among better educated women and is often … policies that change fertility, if they are independent of parent preferences for children or the economic conditions which …

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 … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

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 … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

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 … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

Simon Szreter's book Fertility, Class, and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 argues that social and economic class fails to … explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter … causes of the European fertility decline of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For decades scholars have argued whether …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …