Part 1 Economics of the family in low- and high-income countries: women's choice of work and fertility in urban Tamil Nadu, India, Malathy Duraisamy; economic aspects of child fostering in Cote d'Ivoire, Martha Ainsworth; responses of female labour supply and fertility to the demographic cycle, Evangelos Falaris and H. Elizabeth Peters; the determinants of marital stability - a comparative analysis of first- and higher-order marriages, Evelyn L. Lehrer. Part 2 Time-series analyses of fertility: parental benefits, employment, and fertility dynamics, James R. Walker; an empirical test of the Becker-Barro model of fertility, Daniel A. Seiver and Maureen J. Lage. Part 3 Private and and public investments in education: household composition and expenditures on human capital formation in Kenya, Robert E. Evenson and Germano Mwabu; accounting for public expenditures on education - an international panel study, T. Paul Schultz.