This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in … Indonesia, are effective in advising young women to delay their first birth and also influence the decision on post … also stay longer in post-primary school. According to the average returns of education in Indonesia, I conclude that family …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

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 … to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternal-child health program. Village and individual data confirm a …

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 … to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternalchild health program. Village and individual data confirm a …

rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys that link an individual woman’s fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines … responses in fertility will reinforce this decline by reducing the willingness to engage in unprotected sex. We utilize recent …

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Malawi. The future course of fertility … geographical variation in the distribution of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Fertility is estimated for individual women, and measured as the … major finding is that HIV/AIDS reduces fertility. Uninfected women both give birth to and desire to have fewer children in …

adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) has on the health of such children. Using a triple difference specification, we find that …

childhood health shocks on the cognitive abilities of the children of parents born during the famine. We find that daughters …

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …