Abstract
It is widely accepted that fertility in urban areas is often lower than in rural areas for given levels of education, income and age-sex structures of the respective populations. This fact, coupled with the rapid migration from rural areas, characteristic of most developing countries today, raises two important questions for researchers and policy makers. First, does rural-urban migration lower fertility and thereby bring down population growth in the economy? If so, how and why? And second, what will happen to the gap between rural and urban fertility, as urbanisation increases?.
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