Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007
estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … indicators of the welfare of women and their children improve significantly in conjunction with the program-induced decline in …