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Delayed marriage, contraceptive use, and breastfeeding : fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa

Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Mejía-Guevara, Iván; Akachi, Yoko - 2016

The rate of fertility decline has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the Demographic and Health Surveys for … 21 SSA countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine the within-country fertility patterns by wealth, applying the … Bongaarts (2015) proximate determinants model. We find that overall, fertility has declined in SSA for the richest, but not for …

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Health consequences of sterilizations

De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Dumas, Christelle - 2017

One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on 'permanent' contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones. However, little is known about potential adverse effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the...

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Characteristics and determinants of child malnutrition in Mozambique, 2003-11

Cardoso, José; Allwright, Lindsey; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016

Child malnutrition continues to be a serious impediment to development both at the individual and national levels in many developing countries. In Mozambique, despite a high and sustained GDP growth, child malnutrition has been decreasing at a rather slow pace over the past 15 years. In this...

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Gender preference at birth : a new measure for son preference based on stated preferences and observed measures of parents' fertility decisions

Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2022

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

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Excess female mortality in Africa

Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...

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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India (revised)

Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty'. This phenomenon is relatively less explored in...

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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India

Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - 2021

The impact of childbirth on the labour market participation of women has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries, constraints on mothers labour market participation and earnings being characterized as the motherhood penalty . In the developing country context, and...

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Eradicating women-hurting customs : what role for social engineering?

Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017

Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...

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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization

Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Our work varies from conventional impact evaluation studies because of the inclusion of two post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's...

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Orphans and stunted growth : investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans

Bridgman, Grace - 2020

Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a wellestablished constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the relative contributions of household resources and public service delivery in reducing the orphan-stunting...

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