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1100  2020$c2020-11-10
1500  eng
2050  urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20201110-130228-9
2051  10.17185/duepublico/73328
3000  Miller, Grant
3010  de Paula, Áureo
3010  Valente, Christine
4000  Subjective Expectations and Demands for 
Contraception  [Miller, Grant]
4209  One quarter of married, fertile‐age women in Sub‐Saharan Africa report not wanting a pregnancy and yet do not use contraceptives. To study this issue, we collect detailed data on women’s subjective probabilistic beliefs and estimate a structural model of contraceptive choices. Our results indicate that costly interventions like eliminating supply constraints would only modestly increase contraceptive use. Alternatively, increasing partners’ approval of methods, aligning partners’ fertility preferences with women’s beliefs about pregnancy risk absent contraception have the potential to increase use considerably. Results from a before/after experiment testing this last finding are highly consistent with the structural estimates.
4950  https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/73328$xR$3Volltext$534
4950  https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20201110-130228-9$xR$3Volltext$534
4961  https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00073328
5051  330
5051  610
5550  Contraception
5550  Mozambique
5550  Probabilistic Beliefs