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Fertility and the household's economic status: A natural experiment using Indian micro data
We model fertility as endogenous to the family's economic status because poor households choose to have large families in the absence of adequate social insurance. Because of a strong son preference in India, having two girls first can proxy an exogenous increase in fertility, and is therefore...
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Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42, No. 1, 110-138, January 2006
2006
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/001183.pdf |