[HTML][HTML] Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease …

NV Bhattacharjee, AE Schumacher, A Aali, YH Abate… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Accurate assessments of current and future fertility—including overall trends
and changing population age structures across countries and regions—are essential to help …

Economic benefits of investing in women's health: a systematic review

KH Onarheim, JH Iversen, DE Bloom - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Globally, the status of women's health falls short of its potential. In addition to
the deleterious ethical and human rights implications of this deficit, the negative economic …

[HTML][HTML] Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of …

SE Vollset, E Goren, CW Yuan, J Cao, AE Smith… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Understanding potential patterns in future population levels is crucial for
anticipating and planning for changing age structures, resource and health-care needs, and …

Family planning program effects: Evidence from microdata

G Miller, KS Babiarz - Population and Development Review, 2016 - JSTOR
This article reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning
programs in middle-and low-income countries. It focuses on fertility outcomes (the number …

Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study …

AE Schumacher, A Aali, YH Abate… - The …, 2024 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
Background Accurate assessments of current and future fertility—including overall trends
and changing population age structures across countries and regions—are essential to help …

Understanding why crime fell in the 1990s: Four factors that explain the decline and six that do not

SD Levitt - Journal of Economic perspectives, 2004 - aeaweb.org
Crime dropped sharply and unexpectedly in the United States in the 1990s. I conclude that
four factors collectively explain the entire drop in crime: increases in the number of police …

The global demography of aging: facts, explanations, future

DE Bloom, DL Luca - Handbook of the economics of population aging, 2016 - Elsevier
Population aging is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining
fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are …

Do teenagers respond to HIV risk information? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya

P Dupas - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011 - aeaweb.org
We use a randomized experiment to test whether and what information changes teenagers'
sexual behavior in Kenya. Providing information on the relative risk of HIV infection by …

Booms, busts, and babies' health

R Dehejia, A Lleras-Muney - The Quarterly journal of economics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We study the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's conception
and parental characteristics, parental behaviors, and babies' health. Babies conceived in …

Contraception as development? New evidence from family planning in Colombia

G Miller - The Economic Journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
There has been considerable debate in the last decade about whether or not family
planning programmes in develo** countries reduce fertility or improve socio‐economic …