Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs

Empirical assessments of social networks, fertility and family planning programs: nonlinearities and their implications.

Empirical studies of the diffusion of modern methods of family planning have increasingly incorporated social interaction within nonlinear models such as logits. But they have not considered the full implications of these nonlinear specifications. This paper considers the implications of using nonlinear models in empirical analyses of the impact of family programs, modulated by social interac...

Family Planning, Declining Fertility and the Convergence of Family Policies

Over the last fifty years, reproductive behaviour has become widely accepted as a major concern of governments. In the 1960s, governments were urged to strive for ‘zero population growth’ but in 1968, the United Nations began viewing family planning as a human rights issue rather than focusing only on population control and demographics. By the 1990s, UN documents were empowering women in matte...

Family Planning and Fertility in India

Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines

This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines using the series of nationally representative Family Planning Surveys conducted annually since 1999 augmented by census and other survey data. Its contribution lies on providing recent and nationally representative empirical evidence on the long running but largely unresolved de...

Family planning programs in 2004: new assessments in a changing environment.

CONTEXT Periodic assessments between 1972 and 1999 found consistent increases in the intensity and types of effort exerted by national family planning programs in developing countries. An updated evaluation was needed to examine whether these trends have been affected by recent changes in the family planning environment, such as decentralization, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and funding reductions. ...