This paper examines how women’s fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth, using six experiments conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contrary to predictions that an increase in female earnings raises the opportunity cost of childbearing and that this will lower fertility, the findings show that an increase in the profits of female business-owners in Ethiopia and Togo results in them having more children. The findings also...
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2024/07/10
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10848
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2024/07/10
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The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs
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Aletheia Amalia Donald; Markus Goldstein; Tricia Koroknay-Palicz; Sage,Mathilde.
The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs (English). Policy Research working paper;RRR;PEOPLE;Impact Evaluation series Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099518407102437684