Search Results - subject:"Birth control"

Pronatalist policies' backlash in authoritarian regimes

Baudin, Thomas; Stelter, Robert - 2024

European fascist regimes have attached great importance to nationalistic families and designed policies to perpetuate them. Most offered policy packages with interest-free loans repayable through childbirth, along with allowances and tax deductions for large families. Using a...

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Japan’s Fertility : More Children Please

Asao, Kohei - 2024

Japan’s fertility has declined in the past three decades. Raising Japan’s fertility rate is a key policy priority for the government. Using cross-country analysis and case studies, this paper finds that the most successful measure to support the fertility rate is the provision of childcare...

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Television and family demography : evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany

Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2024

This paper examines the causal effects of television exposure on individual decisions regarding marriage, divorce, and family planning by utilizing a natural experiment in the German Democratic Republic during the period of German division. I exploit the fact that individuals in some East German...

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021

We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using … of the gatekeepers to the new birth control technology. We show that a larger proportion of religiously opposed health …

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Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée - 2023

This paper presents new causal evidence on the "power" of oral contraceptives in shaping women's lives, leveraging the 1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that affected Pill take-up. We analyze administrative data to...

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy M. - 2023

Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics … administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0–7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … 1940. Moreover, birth control clinics had a significant and meaningful negative effect on the incidence of stillbirths and …

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy M. - 2023

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How does the universal two-child policy affect fertility behavior?

Ge, Run; Shi, Xinzheng - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 3 (2023) 4, pp. 227-237

The Chinese government implemented the universal two-child policy on January 1, 2016 to arrest the decline in the nation's birthrate and address the challenge of a rapidly aging population. We find that this policy significantly increased the possibility of having children and this effect was...

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Television and fertility : evidence from a natural experiment

Bönisch, Peter; Hyll, Walter - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 64 (2023) 3, pp. 1025-1066

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As the two-child policy beckons : work-family conflicts, gender strategies and self-worth among women from the first one-child generation in contemporary China

Liu, Ye - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 37 (2023) 1, pp. 20-38

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