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Association of Divorce with Socio-Demographic Covariates in China, 1955-1985
Zeng, Yi; Schultz, T. Paul; Wang, Deming D.; Gu, Danan - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 11, pp. 407-432
Based on a unique data set on the event history of marriage and divorce collected in the In-Depth Fertility Surveys …. It seems that education level is positively related to divorce and labor force participation is negatively related to …
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Schooling, information and non-market productivity : contraceptive use and its effectiveness
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Schultz, T. Paul - 1985
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Schooling, information and nonmarket productivity : contraceptive use and its effectiveness
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - In: International economic review 30 (1989) 2, pp. 457-477
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Evaluating Social Programs with Endogenous Program Placement and Selection of the Treated
Todd, Petra E. - In: Handbook of Development Economics
This chapter considers methods for evaluating the impact of social programs in the presence of nonrandom program placement or program selection. It first presents the evaluation problem as a missing data problem and then considers various solutions proposed in the statistics and econometrics...
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Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
Ravallion, Martin - In: Handbook of Development Economics
The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The emphasis is on the problems encountered in applying these methods to anti-poverty programs in developing countries,...
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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program’s Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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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Family planning as an investment in development: Evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2007
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
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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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/10011279322
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Family planning and women's and children's health: Long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
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
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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007
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