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Christine Valente - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
    Demography, 2016
    Co-Authors: Grant Miller, Christine Valente
    Abstract:

    A longstanding debate exists in Population Policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that alters the supply (or full price) of one or the other and, importantly, that does so in isolation (reproductive health programs often bundle primary health care and family planning—and in some instances, abortion services). In this article, we study Nepal’s 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly implemented Policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich individual-level data representative of fertile-age Nepalese women, we find robust evidence of substitution between modern contraception and abortion. This finding has important implications for public Policy and foreign aid, suggesting that an effective strategy for reducing expensive and potentially unsafe abortions may be to expand the supply of modern contraceptives.

  • Population Policy abortion and modern contraception are substitutes
    2016
    Co-Authors: Grant Miller, Christine Valente
    Abstract:

    There is longstanding debate in Population Policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that alters the supply (or full price) of one or the other – and importantly, does so in isolation (reproductive health programs often bundle primary health care and family planning – and in some instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal’s 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented Policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich individual-level data representative of fertile-age Nepalese women, we find robust evidence of substitution between modern contraception and abortion. This finding has important implications for public Policy and foreign aid, suggesting that an effective strategy for reducing expensive and potentially unsafe abortions may be to expand the supply of modern contraceptives.

Grant Miller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
    Demography, 2016
    Co-Authors: Grant Miller, Christine Valente
    Abstract:

    A longstanding debate exists in Population Policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that alters the supply (or full price) of one or the other and, importantly, that does so in isolation (reproductive health programs often bundle primary health care and family planning—and in some instances, abortion services). In this article, we study Nepal’s 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly implemented Policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich individual-level data representative of fertile-age Nepalese women, we find robust evidence of substitution between modern contraception and abortion. This finding has important implications for public Policy and foreign aid, suggesting that an effective strategy for reducing expensive and potentially unsafe abortions may be to expand the supply of modern contraceptives.

  • Population Policy abortion and modern contraception are substitutes
    2016
    Co-Authors: Grant Miller, Christine Valente
    Abstract:

    There is longstanding debate in Population Policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. What is required is a large-scale intervention that alters the supply (or full price) of one or the other – and importantly, does so in isolation (reproductive health programs often bundle primary health care and family planning – and in some instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal’s 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented Policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich individual-level data representative of fertile-age Nepalese women, we find robust evidence of substitution between modern contraception and abortion. This finding has important implications for public Policy and foreign aid, suggesting that an effective strategy for reducing expensive and potentially unsafe abortions may be to expand the supply of modern contraceptives.

T. V. Sekher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Population Policy for Karnataka: a suggested framework.
    2003
    Co-Authors: T. V. Sekher
    Abstract:

    This paper is presented in six sections. Section I briefly describes the Population scenario of Karnataka. Section II deals with demographic trends. Population Policy environment since independence is discussed in Section III. Section IV evaluates the past performance of fertility control measures. Section V defines future prospects and challenges. The concluding Section VI highlights the perspective framework and recommendations for a state level Population Policy. (excerpt)

  • Population Policy For Karnataka: A Suggested Framework
    2000
    Co-Authors: T. V. Sekher, M. Ramakrishna Reddy
    Abstract:

    In a vast country like India, with a Population of one billion, having high demographic diversity and heterogeneity, and varying levels of socio-economic development among states, a common national Population Policy might not serve the purpose. An effective Population stabilisation programme must be state-specific and address regional disparities, socio-cultural differentials and infrastrucutral problems. This paper discusses the need for a state Policy for Karnataka, within the broad framework of the National Population Policy of 2000, by evaluating the past performances and emphasizing the existing regional disparities within the state. It also highlights the perspectives, framework and recommendations for a Population Policy for Karnataka

Samad Assadpour - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the politics of Population Policy in the islamic republic of iran
    Studies in Family Planning, 2000
    Co-Authors: Homa Hoodfar, Samad Assadpour
    Abstract:

    The Islamic Republic of Iran arguably has one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This success is all the more interesting for advocates of Population programs because the political leaders of the Islamic regime were once strongly opposed to family planning. Indeed after gaining power following the 1979 revolution they were responsible for dismantling Irans relatively new family planning program and introducing pronatalist policies. This article provides an account of the different phases of the Population Policy in Iran and examines the diverse elements that led politico-religious leaders to revise their views about fertility control and to participate in creating a workable family planning program. The complex formal and informal strategies that the political experts the media the religious authorities and the government of the Islamic Republic adopted in order to achieve this about-face are described. The analysis is based on data collected by the first author during anthropological field research during 1993-96 by means of informal interviews with officials with medical personnel with family planning clients and with religious leaders. (authors)

Marie Ladier-fouladi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Islamic Republic of Iran’s New Population Policy and Recent Changes in Fertility
    Iranian Studies, 2021
    Co-Authors: Marie Ladier-fouladi
    Abstract:

    After dropping rapidly and steadily over two decades, fertility in Iran stabilized between 2001 and 2011 at around 1.9 to 2 children per woman, before starting to rise slightly between 2012 and 2016, then falling fairly quickly. This coincided with the implementation of the Islamic Republic’s new Population Policy, with its aggressive and coercive measures, one of whose goals was to reverse the downwards trend in fertility. Given changes in proximate and remote determinants of fertility in Iran, and the decline in fertility since 2016, it is assumed that this new Population Policy triggered a reduction in intervals between births between 2012 and 2015, leading to a slight rise in the fertility of already married couples. The other latent objective of the Islamic Republic’s new Population Policy is to drive Iran’s Population up to 150 million inhabitants in the near future. This is utopian given Iran’s demographic dynamics, but it conceals the political and ideological goal of asserting Iran’s demographic and geopolitical significance within the region, by drawing on a novel immigration Policy to make up for its low fertility.