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Genetics, family structure, and economic growth

Zak, Paul J. - 2000 - This version July 7, 2000

Recent biomedical research shows that roughly three-quarters of cognitive abilities are attributable to genetics and … fertility rates and reducing output growth in the transitional dynamics. If human or physical stocks are sufficiently low, the … model shows that an economy can be caught in a fertility-caused poverty trap, while countries with more resources will …

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Population genetics and economic growth

Zak, Paul J.; Park, Kwang Woo - 2000 - This version June 3, 2000

This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high …

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Determinants of Contraceptive Choice in Nepal

Yamamoto, Yuki - 2018

This study investigated how improvement in women's status affects the choice of contraceptive methods in Nepal. We regressed the choice of contraceptive methods on the variables of women's status and household characteristics by employing large-scale microdata representing over 12,000 married...

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Analysis of contraceptive use among homeless women in Kenya : a case of Nairobi county

Pkaremba, Lydia Cheruto; Oleche, Martine Odhiambo; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

Many factors influence the utilization of reproductive healthcare services in Kenya. Despite the effort by the government and other stakeholders to improve access and utilization of these services, there remains a major challenge in reaching out to marginalized segments of society. The study...

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Aggravating Inequalities : State Regulation of Abortion and Contraception

Whelan, Allison - 2023

Each year in the United States, pervasive inequities in health-care access and health outcomes contribute to tens of thousands of excess deaths among communities of color and other historically marginalized and vulnerable populations. Tragically, even that number may be a conservative estimate....

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Delayed marriage, contraceptive use, and breastfeeding : fertility patterns over time and wealth quintiles in sub-Saharan Africa

Finlay, Jocelyn E.; Mejía-Guevara, Iván; Akachi, Yoko - 2016

The rate of fertility decline has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using the Demographic and Health Surveys for … 21 SSA countries between 1990 and 2014, we examine the within-country fertility patterns by wealth, applying the … Bongaarts (2015) proximate determinants model. We find that overall, fertility has declined in SSA for the richest, but not for …

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Access to the emergency contraceptive pill improves women's health : evidence from Chile

Clarke, Damian; Salinas Ulloa, Viviana - 2020

We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of administrative datasets on health outcomes and pharmaceutical use, and using difference-in-difference and...

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Power of the pill or power of abortion? : re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control

Myers, Caitlin K. - 2012

marriage and motherhood. -- abortion ; contraception ; fertility ; marriage …

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"Momma's got the pill" : how Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut shaped US childbearing

Bailey, Martha J. - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 98-129

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AIDing Contraception : HIV and Recent Trends in Abortion Rates

Hussey, Andrew; Nikolsko‐Rzhevskyy, Alex; Walker, Jay K. - 2010

Since the onset of HIV/AIDS awareness in the early 1980s, much attention has centered around the substantial negative effects of the disease throughout the world. This paper provides evidence of a secondary effect the disease has had on sexual behavior in the United States. Using a...

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