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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016 - This version: 10th June 2016
This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...
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Does timing of health and family planning services matter? : age at first birth and educational attainment in Indonesia
Strupat, Christoph - 2014
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-primary school attendance. Using the Indonesian Family Life...
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
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Temperature and fertility : evidence from Spanish register data
Conte Keivabu, Risto; Cozzani, Marco; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … fertility rate (TFR) in Spain, and that the estimated decrease is higher than the effects estimated in previous literature for … fertility such as population ageing. …
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The effects of the Dobbs decision on fertility
Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra; Myers, Caitlin K. - 2023
fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data …
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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. …
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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 …
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Disease and Fertility : Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden
Boberg-Fazlic, Nina - 2017
This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …
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The Effect of Family Planning Exposure on Fertility Choices and Reproductive Health Care in Rural Pakistan
Khan, Qaisar - 2019
effect on women's fertility choice and utilization of reproductive health care in rural Pakistan. Exploiting variations in … planning exposure on women's fertility choice and reproductive health care utilization. The analysis suggests that, even in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892594
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The Role of HIV Detection on Reproductive Health : Outcomes in Cameroon
Tequame, Miron - 2017
The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both … administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at … 2015 development agenda, our findings highlight any potential added-value from providing age specific family planning …
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