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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP14329 |
DP14329 Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use | |
Tiago Cavalcanti; Georgi Kocharakov; Cezar Santos | |
发表日期 | 2020-01-20 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | What is the role of family planning interventions on fertility, savings, human capital investment, and development? To examine this, endogenous unwanted fertility is embedded in an otherwise standard quantity-quality overlapping generations model of fertility and growth. The model features costly fertility control and families can (partially) insure against a fertility risk by using costly modern contraceptives. In the event of unexpected pregnancies, households can also opt to abort some pregnancies, at a cost. Given the number of children born, parents decide how much education to provide and how much to save out of their income. We fit the model to Kenyan data, implement several family planning policies and decompose their aggregate effects. Our results suggest that with a small government budget (say, up to 0.5 percent of GDP), family planning interventions might be more cost-effective in improving longrun living standards than policies that subsidise basic education. |
主题 | Macroeconomics and Growth |
关键词 | Education Income per capita Contraception Abortion |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14329 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543220 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tiago Cavalcanti,Georgi Kocharakov,Cezar Santos. DP14329 Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use. 2020. |
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