Power Outages, Power Externalities, and Baby Booms
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Power outages, power externalities, and baby booms.
Determining whether power outages have significant fertility effects is an important policy question in developing countries, where blackouts are common and modern forms of family planning are scarce. Using birth records from Zanzibar, this study shows that a month-long blackout in 2008 caused a significant increase in the number of births 8 to 10 months later. The increase was similar across v...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0316-7