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decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
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decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264874
declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
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declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282602
decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146682
Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The birth quota since 1980 has particularly restricted the...
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Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women … for additional births Declines in fertility have proceeded unevenly, first across the high income countries, and more … recently across the low income countries. The cross sectional differentials in fertility are also frequently analyzed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609350
decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810500
The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …
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Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …
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