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The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …
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The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146682
Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282602
Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279322
The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052818
Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106285
The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 … decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982 , as others have … estimated in addition to fertility : women's health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810500
Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537579
experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh …. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …
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show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …
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