Search Results - subject:"Fertility behavior"

Two sides of a coin : the relationship between work autonomy and childbearing

Osiewalska, Beata; Matysiak, Anna - 2024

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How does the universal two-child policy affect fertility behavior?

Ge, Run; Shi, Xinzheng - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 3 (2023) 4, pp. 227-237

The Chinese government implemented the universal two-child policy on January 1, 2016 to arrest the decline in the nation's birthrate and address the challenge of a rapidly aging population. We find that this policy significantly increased the possibility of having children and this effect was...

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Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Policy Harmonization in Bangladesh

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ahsan, Karar Zunaid; May, John F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Over the past 30 years, Bangladesh has achieved significant economic and human development progress, and demonstrated impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects may be hampered by its population growth rate,...

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Culture, fertility and the socioeconomic status of women

Zhang, Chuanchuan; Li, Tao - In: China economic review : an international journal 45 (2017), pp. 279-288

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Development, Modernization, and Childbearing : The Role of Family Sex Composition

Filmer, Deon; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 3, pp. 371-398

Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set …, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence—or absence … this differential fertility behavior, girls tend to grow up with significantly more siblings than do boys, with potential …

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Involving Men in Reproductive and Fertility Issues: Insights from Punjab

Kamran, Iram; Khan, Mumraiz; Tasneem, Zeba - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Drawing on three sources, a 2013 qualitative study in four districts of Punjab province; a targeted analysis of the baseline and end line surveys of the Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH 2007-2012) project; and the Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 1990-1991 and of...

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Interconnections among changing family structure, childrearing and fertility behaviour among the Ogu, Southwestern Nigeria

Wusu, Onipede; Isiugo-Abanihe, Uche - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 8, pp. 139-156

The interconnections of family transformation, childrearing and fertility behaviour are explored. Data were generated through nine focus groups organized among the Ogu and content analyzed. The analysis reveals that although the family system is still largely dominated by extended structure, the...

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Empowerment of microcredit participants and its spillover effects: evidence from the Grameen bank of Bangladesh

Basher, Md. Abul - In: Journal of Developing Areas 40 (2007) 2, pp. 173-183

This paper analyzes how participation in microcredit program helps to reduce the fertility rate. By using the data from the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the paper also examines whether the accomplished empowerment of the microcredit borrower remains limited only to economic activities or also...

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