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Computing the level and distribution of gains from fertility reduction
Research in Population Economics
|January 1, 1981
Abstract:
"This paper describes and illustrates new procedures for measuring monetary gains from fertility reduction that can be applied to macromodels of population and development. A previously developed method for calculating the total monetary gain from averted births is reviewed. A new technique for distributing gains between birth-averting households and society at large is explained....A technique for evaluating alternative fertility reduction programs is described. Each of the methods is applied to a macromodel estimated from a cross section of countries."
Keywords:
Birth RateBirths AvertedChild WorthDemographic FactorsDeveloping CountriesEconomic DevelopmentEconomic FactorsEconomic ModelEvaluationEvaluation MethodologyFamily PlanningFamily Planning Program EvaluationFamily Planning ProgramsFertilityFertility MeasurementsFertility Rate--changesFinancial ActivitiesIncomeMicroeconomic FactorsModels, TheoreticalPopulationPopulation DynamicsPopulation Growth--changesPopulation ProgramsResearch Methodology