condom use. Provision of condoms post-partum can play a contraceptive role for married couples and protect against STIs/HIV …Before modern contraceptive methods were available in developing countries, postpartum sexual abstinence formed the …. Abstinence remained the main way to space births, given low contraceptive use. Mothers generally decided when to wean a child …

1. Introduction and Overview of Findings -- 2. Population Size and Growth in Asian Countries -- 3. Contraceptive … Prevalence, Fertility Levels, and Population Growth -- 4. Expenditure, Finance, and Public-Private Roles in Family Planning -- 5 … Asian Countries -- 8. Coping with Population Growth and Change -- Appendix A Parameterization of the Total Fertility Rate …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

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 … which women are detected HIV positive. Younger women self-select into HIV during their antenatal VCT but their preference …