Empowering Adolescent Girls in Socially Conservative Settings: Impacts and Lessons Learned from the Ishraq Program in Rural Upper Egypt
This study evaluates and presents lessons learned from Ishraq, an educational program that established safe spaces for out‐of‐school adolescent girls in rural Upper Egypt. Baseline and endline surveys were administered to all households containing an eligible girl in the program areas. We analyze the predictors of program enrollment and dropout and use difference‐in‐differences estimation to evaluate the impact of the program on participants as compared to non‐participating eligible girls. Although we find positive impacts on literacy, attitudes toward sports, and reproductive health knowledge, little impact was ...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Maia Sieverding, Asmaa Elbadawy Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Abortion Legalization and Childbearing in Mexico
In 2007 abortion was legalized in the Federal District of Mexico, making it the largest jurisdiction in Latin America, outside of Cuba, to allow women to have abortions on request during the first trimester of pregnancy. While the implications of the law for women's health and maternal mortality have been investigated, its potential association with fertility behavior has yet to be assessed. We examine metropolitan‐area differences in overall and parity‐specific childbearing, as well as the age pattern of childbearing between 2000 and 2010 to identify the contribution of abortion legalization to fertility in Mexico. Ou...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - June 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Edith Y. Gutiérrez Vázquez, Emilio A. Parrado Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Child Wanted and When? Fertility Intentions, Wantedness, and Child Survival in Rural Northern Ghana
This article analyzes longitudinal responses to these questions over a 10‐year period. Birth and survival histories of subsequently born children linked to preference data permit investigation of the question: are “wanted” children more likely to survive than “unwanted” children? Hazard models are estimated to determine whether children born to women who indicated that they did not want to have a child at the time they did, or did not want any more children in the future, have a higher risk of mortality relative to children who were reported wanted at the time of pregnancy. Results show no significant differences...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - May 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ayaga A. Bawah, Patrick O. Asuming, Cornelius Debpuur, James F. Phillips Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Capturing Complexities of Relationship ‐Level Family Planning Trajectories in Malawi
In a transitioning fertility climate, preferences and decisions surrounding family planning are constantly in flux. Malawi provides an ideal case study of family planning complexities as fertility preferences are flexible, the relationship context is unstable, and childbearing begins early. I use intensive longitudinal data from Tsogolo la Thanzi—a research project in Malawi that follows young adults in romantic partnerships through the course of their relationship. I examine two questions: (1) What are the typical patterns of family planning as young adults transition through a relationship? (2) How are family planning ...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - May 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hannah E. Furnas Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Determinants of Quality of Family Planning Counseling among Private Health Facilities in Lagos
We use a unique dataset that includes an objective measure of the quality of family planning counseling from 927 private health facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria, to determine which variables at the facility and provider levels are most closely correlated with the quality of family planning counseling. Our data on quality come from mystery client surveys in which the clients posed as women seeking family planning counseling. We find that quality is strongly associated with the cadre of provider, with doctors delivering substantially higher‐quality counselling than nurses. Doctors not only outperform nurses overall, but ...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - May 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Doug Johnson, Jorge Ugaz Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Zambia 2013–14
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Egypt 2014
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The End of China's One‐Child Policy
Starting on January 1, 2016, all Chinese couples are allowed to have two children. This marks the end of China's one‐child policy, which has restricted the majority of Chinese families to only one child for the last 35 years. Yet, China's policy change came at least a decade later than it should have. The costly lessons to be learned are not only in politics and public policymaking, but also in how parts of the academic community informed and misinformed public policymaking. (Source: Studies in Family Planning)
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wang Feng, Baochang Gu, Yong Cai Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Emergency Contraception in Post‐Conflict Somalia: An Assessment of Awareness and Perceptions of Need
In conflict‐affected settings such as Somalia, emergency contraception (EC) has the potential to serve as an important means of pregnancy prevention. Yet Somalia remains one of the few countries without a registered progestin‐only EC pill. In 2014, we conducted a qualitative, multi‐methods study in Mogadishu to explore awareness of and perceptions of need for EC. Our project included 10 semi‐structured key informant interviews, 20 structured in‐person interviews with pharmacists, and four focus group discussions with married and unmarried Somali women. Our findings reveal a widespread lack of knowledge of both ex...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Faduma Gure, Mohammed Koshin Dahir, Marian Yusuf, Angel M. Foster Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Respondents’ Exposure to Community‐based Services and Reported Fertility‐Regulation Behavior: A Decade of Data from the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project
This article examines a decade of demographic surveillance data from rural northern Ghana linked with prospective panel survey data recording respondents’ reported fertility‐regulation behavior. We assess the impact of access to community‐based contraceptive services, reported fertility‐regulation behavior, and their interaction on the risk of a conception that results in a birth. The effects of service exposure differ by marital status. Reported use of any method to delay or avoid pregnancy appears to be more effective in reducing the risk of conception among the unmarried in areas offering community‐based contr...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elizabeth F. Jackson, Ayaga A. Bawah, John E. Williams, James F. Phillips Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Instability in Parent–Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa
There is widespread recognition of the importance of family stability for child development. South Africa presents an interesting context in which to study the consequences of family instability because of the traditionally fluid nature of household composition due to labor migration, child fostering, and non‐marital fertility. More recently, the HIV pandemic has added another source of instability. Within South Africa, however, patterns of instability differ markedly across racial groups. We use the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) data to examine the implications of changes in parent–child coresidence for educational and...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Letícia J. Marteleto, Shannon Cavanagh, Kate Prickett, Shelley Clark Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Women's Reproductive Health
This article explores the effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on women's reproductive health, using geocoded data from the 2005 and 2012 Haiti Demographic and Health Surveys. We use geographic variation in the destructiveness of the earthquake to conduct a difference‐in‐difference analysis. Results indicate that heightened earthquake intensity reduced use of injectables—the most widely used modern contraceptive method in Haiti—and increased current pregnancy and current unwanted pregnancy. Analysis of impact pathways suggests that severe earthquake intensity significantly increased women's unmet need for family pl...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Julia Andrea Behrman, Abigail Weitzman Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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