both period and cohort measures of fertility. The methodology, which can be applied to period data as well as cohort data … fertility covering all parity transitions. The five dimensions of this life table are woman's age, parity, duration in parity …, and two dimensions representing lagged child mortality (number of dead children at the beginning and end of the previous …

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and … fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what … indicatorsof fertility change and produce better results than population mortality or socioeconomicfactors alone. Use of health …

This paper examines causality and parameter instability in the long-run relationshipbetween fertility and women …The definitive version of this article: ENGELHARDT, H., KOEGEL, T. and PRSKAWETZ, A., 2004. Fertility and women …

are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …

The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples’ fertility is supply constrained based on … with the desired family size question, both constrained and unconstrained couples compare their demand for children with … qualitative response such as, “It is Up to God” (UTG), that essentially conveys the notion of demanding as many children as the …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …

test for functional forms and spatial dependence.Essay 3 investigates the effects of fertility on parental labor force … fertility on parental labor force participation and the IV models to estimate the effects of fertility on parental labor supply …. Using the gender of the first child and the same gender of the first two children as two instrumental variables, this essay …

stabilization and eventual decline of the population, via fertility at below-replacement levels for an extended period of time …. According to the 2000 census, the total fertility rate (TFR) for China was 1.22—well below 2.1, the replacement level of … fertility. However, the country’s TFR fluctuated spatially with rates of .86, 1.08, and 1.43, for cities, towns, and rural …

more related tothe diminishing willingness to marry than a changing attitude toward fertility. In asetting where …