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fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased … results suggest that electrification contributes substantially to the fertility decline. In a context in which family planning …We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian …
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fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased … results suggest that electrification contributes substantially to the fertility decline. In a context in which family planning …We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352230
fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased … results suggest that electrification contributes substantially to the fertility decline. In a context in which family planning …We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054587
A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … present fresh evidence that shows education, especially for women, is an important determinant of the fertility transition in … capita and child mortality on fertility rates are non-robust and inconsistent with the predictions of the unified growth …
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. Bedouin households, especially in non-recognized villages, were found to have much less access to infrastructure compared to … indirect effect toward the completion of schooling, thus keeping mothers’ fertility relatively high and reducing education … mechanisms it seems that government intervention in infrastructure may yield a high social return and help interrupt the vicious …
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for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic …-term positive trend in life expectancies. Despite the fact that SSA as a whole is suffering a delayed and slow fertility transition … compared to other world's regions, and despite evidence for halting or even reverting fertility decline in countries with …
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Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women … for additional births Declines in fertility have proceeded unevenly, first across the high income countries, and more … recently across the low income countries. The cross sectional differentials in fertility are also frequently analyzed in …
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The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...
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Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates …
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fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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