Fertility & Empowerment Network Working Paper Series

The Fertility and Empowerment Network, funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is undertaking a series of empirical studies to examine whether and to what extent increasingly smaller family sizes in lower and middle income countries have empowered women or resulted in fundamental transformations in inequitable gender systems.

The Fertility & Empowerment Network Working Paper Series will include the following 13 studies:

Remobilizing the Gender and Fertility Connection: The Case for Examining the Impact of Fertility Control and Fertility Declines on Gender Equality
Anju Malhotra, International Center for Research on Women

A Macro-level Exploration of the Links between Fertility Decline and Gender Equality
Susan Lee-Rife, International Center for Research on Women; Sophie Namy, International Center for Research on Women; Anju Malhotra, International Center for Research on Women

Influences of Fertility Decline and Increasing Age at First Birth on Women's Well-being and Equality with Men: A Cross-national Time-series Analysis
Kathryn Yount, Emory University; Nafisa Halim, Emory University

Fertility Declines and Shifts in Gender Equality in India: A Comparative Analysis of Punjab and Tamil Nadu
Anju Malhotra, International Center for Research on Women; Sophie Namy, International Center for Research on Women; Rohini Pande, consultant

Like Daughter, Like Son? Fertility Decline and the Transformation of Gender Systems in the Family
Keera Allendorf, University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana

Fertility Decline and Gender Inequality in Bangladesh
Sajeda Amin, Population Council; Simeen Mahmud, BRAC Development Institute

Intergenerational Relationship Between Women's Fertility and Their Aspirations for Their Children's Education
Jessica Gipson, University of California, Los Angeles;  Donna Ansara, The Johns Hopkins University; Socorro Gultiano, University of San Carlos; Michelle Hindin, The Johns Hopkins University

Fertility Decline and Marital Gender Relations in Egypt
Susan Lee-Rife, International Center for Research on Women; Kirsten Stoebenau, International Center for Research on Women; Kathryn Yount, Emory University

The Influence of Women's Early Childbearing on Subsequent Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-National Meta Analysis
Michelle Hindin, The Johns Hopkins University

Empowerment in an Unequal World: Fertility Decline and Women's Economic Empowerment Among African South Africans
Kirsten Stoebenau, International Center for Research on Women; Donna Ansara, The Johns Hopkins University; Daniela Casale, The University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Fertility Declines and Gender Inequality in China, 1970-2010 
Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hua Ye, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Impact of Family Planning and Delayed Childbearing on Women’s Empowerment in Iran
Amir Erfani, Nipissing University, Canada