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The dynamics of fertility, family planning and female education in a developing economy
| DC Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Abul Mansur Mohammed Masih | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rumi Masih | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-05T11:30:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-05T11:30:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Unlike most empirical works on fertility analysis, this study is the first attempt to analyse the dynamics of fertility and its determinants with a particular focus on the role played by female education and family planning programmes in the context of a traditional society. The analysis is based on the application of the following dynamic time-series techniques in a multivariate context: cointegration, vector error-correction modelling and variance decompositions. These `dynamic' tools are recently developed and hitherto untried in fertility analysis in the context of a poor developing economy, such as India. The results based on the above most recently developed methodology, broadly indicate that in the complex dynamic interactions, the importance of conventional `structural - hypothesis as a `Granger-causal' factor in bringing fertility down in the longer term cannot be denied. However, overall, in the short to long term, the findings appear to be more consistent with the recent `ideational' hypothesis (emphasizing the critical role played by the two policy variables in the analysis - i.e. changes in the female secondary enrolment ratios, and family planning programmes to ensure `initial' fertility decline) than with the conventional `structural' hypothesis (emphasizing a signifcant socio-economic structural change as a pre-condition for `initial' fertility decline). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mohammed Masih, A. M., & Masih, R. (2000). The dynamics of fertility, family planning and female education in a developing economy. Applied Economics, 32(12), 1617-1627. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/000368400419005 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1466-4283 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ikr.inceif.org/handle/INCEIF/2998 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | en_US |
| dc.rights | 2000. Taylor & Francis Ltd | |
| dc.source | SEDONA | |
| dc.subject | Fertility | en_US |
| dc.subject | Family planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Female education | en_US |
| dc.subject | Developing economy | en_US |
| dc.title | The dynamics of fertility, family planning and female education in a developing economy | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
| dlc.maintopic | Conventional finance | |
| dlc.subtopic | Economics | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| ikr.doctype | Scholarly Works | |
| ikr.topic.maintopic | Conventional finance | en_US |
| ikr.topic.subtopic | Economics | en_US |
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