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Family Planning and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Incentive Effects and Direct Effects among Malaysian Women

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  • Kimberly Singer Babiarz

    (Stanford University)

  • Jiwon Lee

    (Pomona College)

  • Grant Miller

    (Stanford University
    NBER)

  • Tey Nai Peng

    (University of Malaysia)

  • Christine Valente

    (University of Bristol)

Abstract

Although family planning programs can improve women’s welfare directly through changes in realized fertility, they may also have important incentive effects by increasing parents’ investments in girls not yet fertile. Exploiting the staggered implementation of family planning programs in Malaysia during the 1960s and 1970s among girls of varying ages, we study these potential incentive effects, finding that family planning may have raised raise girls’ educational attainment substantially. We also find that these early investments are linked to gains in women’s paid labor at prime working ages and to greater support for women’s elderly parents (a marker for women’s bargaining power within the household). Notably, these incentive effects may be larger than the direct effects of family planning alone.

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  • Kimberly Singer Babiarz & Jiwon Lee & Grant Miller & Tey Nai Peng & Christine Valente, 2017. "Family Planning and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Incentive Effects and Direct Effects among Malaysian Women," Working Papers 471, Center for Global Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:cgd:wpaper:471
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    1. Muluken Dessalegn Muluneh & Lyn Francis & Mhiret Ayele & Sintayehu Abebe & Misrak Makonnen & Virginia Stulz, 2021. "The Effect of Women’s Empowerment in the Utilisation of Family Planning in Western Ethiopia: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-14, June.

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    JEL classification:

    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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