Family planning and fertility decline in rural Iran: the impact of rural health clinics
During the first few years of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and aided by pro-natal government policies, Iranian fertility was on the rise. In a reversal of its population policy, in 1989, the government launched an ambitious and innovative family planning program aimed at rural families. By 2005, the program had covered more than 90% of the rural population and the average number of births per rural woman had declined to replacement level from about 8 births in the mid 1980s. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a particular feature of the program – health houses – on rural fertility, taking advantage of the variation in the timing of their construction across the country. We use three different methods to obtain a range of estimates for the impact of health houses on village‐level fertility: difference‐in‐differences (DID), matching DID, and length of exposure. We find estimates of impact ranging from 4 to 20% of the decline in fertility during 1986–1996. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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2010
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Authors: | Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani ; M. Jalal Abbasi‐Shavazi ; Meimanat Hosseini‐Chavoshi |
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Health Economics. - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., ISSN 1057-9230. - Vol. 19.2010, S1, p. 159-180
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
Subject: | Iran | family planning | health houses | program evaluation | difference‐in‐differences | propensity score matching | fertility |
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