...Yoko Nakagaki Purpose This study aims to apply two recently discovered relationships that describe fertility recovery in developed countries to East Asia: the U-shaped relationship between fertility and FLP (female labor participation) and the inverse-J-shaped relationship between fertility...

... limit the estimation procedures one can use for the purpose of the analysis. Practical implications Contrary to the consensus in the literature, the paper finds that it is not Islam that worsens gender inequality but rather the high fertility rates generally found among followers of Islam...

...Sharmistha Self Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of agricultural technology on fertility rates in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach It is hypothesized here that agricultural technology transforms production techniques and labor demand patterns which...