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Attitudes towards abortion and contraception in rural and urban Burkina Faso
Rossier, Clémentine - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 2, pp. 23-58
means of birth control (abstinence, contraception, abortion) in two populations in Burkina Faso (one rural and one urban … applying N. Elias’ theory of the civilization process, we seek to explain why abortion is less tolerated, while more widely …
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Fertility behaviour of recent immigrants to Israel
Nahmias, Petra - In: Demographic Research 10 (2004) 4, pp. 83-120
The fertility practices of immigrants are a particularly interesting field of study for demographers, providing an insight into the fertility behaviour of individuals when both the society and the individual undergo a period of rapid change. This paper describes and compares the fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818181
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Ukraine: On the border between old and new in uncertain times
Perelli-Harris, Brienna - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 29, pp. 1145-1178
This chapter provides an overview of the demographic situation in Ukraine, including explanations for the decline to … between low fertility and changing marriage patterns, contraceptive prevalence, and abortion. The author then reviews the … evidence for the leading explanations of fertility decline in Ukraine, including economic uncertainty, social anomie, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818162
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Abortion and human capital accumulation: A contribution to the understanding of the gender gap in education
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to abortion decreases probability of dropping out of school for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336058
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Abortion and human capital accumulation : a contribution to the understanding of the gender gap in education
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to abortion decreases probability of dropping out of school for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798538
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Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortions : India's Experience Over Four Decades
Pörtner, Claus C. - 2020
Over the past four decades, the Hindu women in India most likely to use sex-selective abortions—well-educated women with no sons—had the most substantial lengthening of birth intervals and the most biased sex ratios. As a result, we now see cases that reverse the traditional spacing pattern,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841288
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Abortion and Human Capital Accumulation: A Contribution to the Understanding of the Gender Gap in Education
Azarnert, Leonid V. - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2008
This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to abortion decreases probability of dropping out of school for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626036
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Sex Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing
Pörtner, Claus C. - 2016
This paper addresses two main questions: what is the relationship between fertility and sex selection and how does birth spacing interact with the use of sex-selective abortions? I introduce a statistical method that incorporates how sex-selective abortions affect both the likelihood of a son...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194707
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Abortion during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Racial Disparities and Barriers to Care in the U.S
Wolfe, Taida; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2022
individuals navigating an unfamiliar health and economic environment. COVID-19’s introduction into a landscape of abortion … Hispanic abortion seekers. Relaxing existing restrictions on medication abortions and telemedicine delivery models may be one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240509
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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic … outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we empirically demonstrate these points. Despite a more than 5 percent increase in …
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