The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs

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dc.creatorDonald, Aletheia
dc.creatorGoldstein, Markuz
dc.creatorKoroknay-Palicz, Tricia
dc.creatorSage, Mathilde
dc.date2024-07-17T18:32:35Z
dc.date2024-07-17T18:32:35Z
dc.date2024-07-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:30:33Z
dc.descriptionThis 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 show a positive fertility response to increases in the value of household assets induced by land formalization programs in Benin and Ghana. These results are driven by women who are in most need of sons for support in old age or in the event of widowhood. The findings suggest that women’s lack of long-term economic security is an important driver of fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099518407102437684/IDU1699f7acb16ca614fe4199601d8d3c9a94a76
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41890
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-10848
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/404855
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper; 10848
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectAFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subjectGENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subjectWOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectSDG 5
dc.titleThe Fertility Impacts of Development Programs
dc.typeWorking Paper

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