Fertility, Education, and Development: Evidence from India

By J. Drèze, M. Murthi. 2001

416 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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In Demography

1. S. Jayachandran
2. Angus Deaton

In Gender Studies

1. S. Jayachandran
2. Angus Deaton
3. A. Hermalin

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. S. Jayachandran
2. Angus Deaton

Citations in the corpus

• The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity (2004, neutral): “It does present estimates of the impact of gender inequality on fertility and child mortality, but also uses other studies that have estimated these impacts (Gatti, 1999; Murthi and Dreze, 2001; Schultz, 1994; Summers, 1994).”
• Fertility Decline and Missing Women (2014, background): “Maternal education is also associated with a decline in fertility (Dreze and Murthi, 2001; Osili and Long, 2008; Duflo, Dupas, and Kremer, 2012).”
• Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination (2002, background): “On the determinants of mortality and fertility in India, see also Murthi, Guio and Drèze (1995) and Drèze and Murthi (2001), and further studies cited there.”
• Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development and Economic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications (2013, neutral): “In line with this finding, Drèze and Murthi (2001) find a negative and significant correlation between fertility and female literacy at the district level in India.”