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context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …
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Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization …
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mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
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In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go "missing" because of the...
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A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...
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The aim of the study is to better understand adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs in order to inform the design of interventions and policies that improve access to and use of adolescent SRH services in Niger. A mixed-methods study was conducted and included: (i) a...
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Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health : an overview / Robert Black, Marleen Temmerman, and Neff Walker -- The burden of reproductive ill health / Alex Ezeh, Abdhalah K. Ziraba, John Cleland, Akinrinota Bankole, anmd Claudia Garcia Moreno Esteva -- Levels and causes of maternal...
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. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European … countries, low overall fertility in Russia can be explained predominantly by a high prevalence of one-child families, despite …
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African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing...
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