fertility

Providing free access to all modern contraceptive products for three years in local public health centres in rural Burkina Faso had no detectable effect on birth rates, suggesting that fertility levels are in line with how many children families want...

New causal evidence shows boosting African women's income and wealth increases fertility, particularly among women without a son, suggesting that this fertility increase is a means to safeguard long-term economic security.

Conditional cash transfer programmes can have long-term benefits by reducing crime, lowering adolescent fertility and increasing school attendance as well as formal employment.

The extension of social pensions in Namibia in the 1990s led to a rapid, substantial decline in fertility

The bulk of this century’s population growth lies in the exceptionally high demand for children of poorer households in sub-Saharan Africa

Women have a stronger preference for contraceptive vouchers than their spouses in monogamous households, but a weaker preference in polygynous ones

Telenovelas in Brazil helped reduce fertility rates, while an MTV drama increased knowledge about HIV in Nigeria and encouraged safer sexual practices

A decline in child mortality in America led to substantial changes in women’s choices and behaviour

Why do we still see very high fertility rates in Zambia when women want to have fewer children and are open to the use of contraceptives?