Fertility Regulation in an Economic Crisis

Christopher McKelvey, Duncan Thomas and Elizabeth Frankenberg

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Abstract: Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and increase investment per child worldwide. The importance for fertility behaviors of keeping contraceptive prices low, however, remains unclear. Targeting of subsidies and insufficient price variation have hindered prior attempts to estimate the effect of monetary and non-monetary contraceptive costs on fertility behavior. Using longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an analysis of the dramatic variation in prices and incomes that was induced by the economic crisis in the late 1990s to pin down the effect of contraceptive availability and costs as well as household resources on contraceptive use and method choice. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/312.pdf].

Keywords: fertility regulation; economic crisis; household; resources; contraceptive use; prices; incomes; Indonesia; family survey; investment; child; developing countries; international aid; multilateral organizations; planning; infrastructure investments; financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09
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