Title: Replication Data for: Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

Type Dataset Ashraf, Nava, Field, Erica, Lee, Jean (2018): Replication Data for: Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/6MSJHK

Authors: Ashraf, Nava (London School of Economics and Political Science) ; Field, Erica (Duke University) ; Lee, Jean (Millennium Challenge Corporation) ; Ashraf, Nava (London School of Economics and Political Science) ; Field, Erica (Duke University) ; Lee, Jean (Millennium Challenge Corporation) ;

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Summary

We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard since most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with their husbands, we find that women given access with their husbands were 19 percent less likely to seek family planning services, 25 percent less likely to use concealable contraception, and 27 percent more likely to give birth. However, women given access to contraception alone report a lower subjective well-being, suggesting a psycho-social cost of making contraceptives more concealable.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/6MSJHK

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: July 09, 2018
• Updated: April 02, 2020

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Waiver

Format

electronic resource

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