Family Planning: Program Effects / Grant Miller, Kimberly Singer Babiarz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Grant.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Singer Babiarz, Kimberly.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20586.

NBER working paper series no. w20586

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Family Planning

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.

Summary:

This paper reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes throughout the life cycle. Although effect sizes are heterogeneous, long-term studies imply that in practice, family planning programs may only explain a modest share of fertility decline in real-world settings (explaining 4-20% of fertility decline among studies finding significant effects). Family planning programs may also have quantitatively modest - but practically meaningful - effects on the socio-economic welfare of individuals and families.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2014.