Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to … directly control their fertility, allowing them to ultimately decide upon children without man's consent and to decrease … analyzed through its direct consequences on fertility and fertility technology, primarily on women actually experiencing an …

model of contraceptive choices. Our results indicate that costly interventions like eliminating supply constraints would … only modestly increase contraceptive use. Alternatively, increasing partners’ approval of methods, aligning partners …’ fertility preferences with women’s, and correcting women’s beliefs about pregnancy risk absent contraception have the potential …

This paper provides a general characterization of overall power regulation and a detailed characterization of the … ongoing evolution of distributed rooftop photovoltaic (PV) regulation in Costa Rica. The paper further develops rooftop PV … the institutional architecture of power regulation in Costa Rica and contrasts it with international best practices …

Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar … Cosmetic Act, 1940, is expected to overhaul the drug regulation, this study, the first of its kind, evaluates the …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …