Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso
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- Pascaline Dupas & Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Pauline Rossi, 2024. "The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso," NBER Working Papers 32427, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Burkina Faso; Family planning; Demographic transition; Social norms; Randomized trial;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2024-11-11 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2024-11-11 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2024-11-11 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2024-11-11 (Health Economics)
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