"I propose to use new, highly detailed measures of multiple dimensions of health services and schools to advance significantly our understanding of the relationship between these services and individuals' childbearing beliefs and behaviors. The research proposed here will help to illuminate the specific mechanisms linking context to individuals-an important contribution for furthering development of theories about the social world and for policy makers who want to design effective fertility-related programs. The aim of this research is to find empirical answers to three specific questions about the relationship between these dimensions of health services and schools and women's fertility. These questions are: 1) Which dimensions of health services and schools influence fertility related beliefs? 2) Which dimensions of health services and schools influence fertility related behaviors? 3) Which beliefs act as mechanisms through which dimensions of health services and schools influence fertility related behavior? To address these questions, I propose a research plan using data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) to investigate the independent effects of these dimensions of health services and schools on childbearing beliefs (desired family size and ideal family roles) and childbearing behaviors (the timing of pregnancy and of the termination of childbearing) and to test the relative consequences of variation in these dimensions of health services and schools. To address potential biases from non-random program placement, I will test multiple methodological techniques, including fixed and random effects estimators and propensity score matching, designed to investigate violations of the random placement assumption in my analysis."