Landholding. Rural Fertility and Internal Migration in Developing Countries: Econometric Evidence from Cross-National Data

Internal Migration in Developing Countries

Metropolitan Migration in Developed Countries: A Cross-National Data Base

Cross-national studies have mushroomed in the field of demography over the past two decades. Yet there have been some surprising omissions. One of these, until recently, has been a lack of comparative work on internal migration leading to big city population changes in the world's developed countries of North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The reason for this void does not lie with a lac...

Deficits, Debt Financing, Monetary Policy and Inflation in Developing Countries: Internal or External Factors? Evidence from Iran

This paper focuses on internal and external factors, which influence the inflation rate in developing countries. A monetary model of inflation rate, capable of incorporating both monetary and fiscal policies as well as other internal and external factors, was developed and tested on Iranian data. It was found that, over the long run, a higher exchange rate leads to a higher price and that the f...

Fertility in Developing Countries

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 preferences or constraints affect...

Trust and Fertility: Evidence from OECD countries

Using panel data for 24 (OECD) countries during the period 1980–2004 this study examines how social trust affects fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in developed countries, trust underlies the d...