Extreme events, educational aspirations, and long-term outcomes
In: Population and environment: a journal of interdisciplinary studies, Band 46, Heft 3
ISSN: 1573-7810
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In: Population and environment: a journal of interdisciplinary studies, Band 46, Heft 3
ISSN: 1573-7810
In: NBER Working Paper No. w32702
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w22317
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w19357
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In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 27-38
ISSN: 1728-4465
Data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey are used to investigate the impact of a major expansion in access to midwifery services on women's use of antenatal care and delivery assistance. Between 1991 and 1998, Indonesia trained some 50,000 midwives, placing them in poor communities that were distant from health‐care centers. We analyze information from pregnancy histories to relate changes in the choices that individual women make across pregnancies to the arrival of a trained midwife in the village. We show that regardless of a woman's educational level, the placement of village midwives in communities is associated with significant increases in women's receipt of iron tablets and in their choices about care during delivery—changes that reflect their moving away from reliance on traditional birth attendants. For women with relatively low levels of education, the presence of village midwives has the additional benefit of increasing use of antenatal care during the first trimester of pregnancy. The results of the study suggest that bringing services closer to women can change their patterns of use.
In: Population and development review, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 467-490
ISSN: 1728-4457
AbstractExposure to extreme events has been hypothesized to affect subsequent mortality because of mortality selection and scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami for a population‐representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster. For this population, the dynamics of selection and scarring are a complex function of the degree of tsunami impact in the community, the nature of individual exposures, age at exposure, and gender. Among individuals from tsunami‐affected communities we find evidence for positive mortality selection among older individuals, with stronger effects for males than for females, and that this selection dominates any scarring impact of stressful exposures that elevate mortality. Among individuals from other communities, where mortality selection does not play a role, there is evidence of scarring with property loss associated with elevated mortality risks in the five years after the disaster among adults age 50 or older at the time of the disaster.
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 18, Heft 2
ISSN: 1708-3087
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 121, Heft 554, S. F162-F182
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: The Economic Journal, Band 121, Heft 554, S. F162-F182
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In: Journal of development economics, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 53-85
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 98, Heft 1, S. 108-123
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 389-409
ISSN: 1728-4465
Indonesia established its Village Midwife Program in 1989 to combat high rates of maternal mortality. The program's goals were to address gaps in access to reproductive health care for rural women, increase access to and use of family planning services, and broaden the mix of available contraceptive methods. In this study, we use longitudinal data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to examine the program's effect on contraceptive practice. We find that the program did not affect overall contraceptive prevalence but did affect method choice. Over time, for women using contraceptives, midwives were associated with increased odds of injectable contraceptive use and decreased odds of oral contraceptive and implant use. Although the Indonesian government had hoped that the Village Midwife Program would channel women into using longer‐lasting methods, the women's "switching behavior" indicates that the program succeeded in providing additional outlets for and promoting the use of injectable contraceptives.
Indonesia established its Village Midwife Program in 1989 to combat high rates of maternal mortality. The program's goals were to address gaps in access to reproductive health care for rural women, increase access to and use of family planning services, and broaden the mix of available contraceptive methods. In this study, we use longitudinal data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to examine the program's effect on contraceptive practice. We find that the program did not affect overall contraceptive prevalence but did affect method choice. Over time, for women using contraceptives, midwives were associated with increased odds of injectable contraceptive use and decreased odds of oral contraceptive and implant use. Although the Indonesian government had hoped that the Village Midwife Program would channel women into using longer-lasting methods, the women's "switching behavior" indicates that the program succeeded in providing additional outlets for and promoting the use of injectable contraceptives.
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