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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269515
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Women's Careers and Family Formation
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270103
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Women's Careers and Family Formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470402
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Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence
Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels through which the relationship between … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296633
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Power of the pill or power of abortion? Re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2012
Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and 1970s has not adequately accounted for the largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283957
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Health information and health outcomes: An application of the regression discontinuity design to the 1995 UK contraceptive pill scare case
Del Bono, Emilia; Francesconi, Marco; Best, Nicky G. - 2011
This paper provides a general formulation of the regression discontinuity (RD) design and applies this method to analyse the effects of the 1995 UK pill scare. We show that in the five months following a health warning on the third generation pill, conception rates rose by more than 7%, abortion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288970
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Mixed method evaluation of a passive mHealth sexual information texting service in Uganda
Jamison, Julian; Karlan, Dean; Raffler, Pia - 2013
We evaluate the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones, using a clustered randomized control trial augmented by qualitative interviews. The intervention aimed to improve sexual health knowledge and shift individuals towards safer sexual behavior by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369073
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Zehn Jahre Aids-Politik in Deutschland: Bemerkungen zu Bilanz und Perspektiven
Rosenbrock, Rolf - In: Berliner Ärzte: die offizielle Zeitschrift der … 30 (1993) 6, pp. 11-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292050
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Risikoverhalten von Freiern: Ergebnisse einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung
Markert, Stefanie - In: Prävention: Zeitschrift für Gesundheitsförderung 15 (1992) 1, pp. 19-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295051