Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia*

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Miller, Grant
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02306.x
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 709-736
• 关键词: intrahousehold allocation; population policies; IMPACT; PROGRAMS; CONSEQUENCES; RESOURCES; determinants; bangladesh; fertility; MARKET

摘要

There has been considerable debate in the last decade about whether or not family planning programmes in developing countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. This article provides new evidence by studying the expansion of one of the world's oldest and largest family planning organisations - Profamilia of Colombia. It finds that family planning explains less than 10% of Colombia's fertility decline during its demographic transition. As in wealthy countries, however, lowering the costs of first birth postponement produced important socio-economic gains, enabling young women to obtain more education and to work more and live independently later in life.