the article by potts et al, “the pill is mightier than the sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

International Family Planning Perspectives As a result of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, reproductive health policy has expanded to include a more comprehensive view of health and development. No longer merely a response to concerns about the world’s expanding population, reproductive health policy now addresses issues that reflect the needs of ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to examine the effects of macro-level factors - welfare state policies and public health initiatives - on breastfeeding initiation among eighteen high-income countries. METHODS This study utilizes fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis methods to examine the combinations of conditions leading to both high and low national breastfeeding initiation ...

Although the optimal policy under endogenous fertility has been widely studied, the optimal public intervention under endogenous childbearing age has remained largely unexplored. This paper examines the optimal family policy in a context where the number and the timing of births are chosen by individuals who differ as to how early fertility can weaken future earnings growth. We analyze the desi...

The Chinese government implemented the One Child Policy in an attempt to stave off population explosion and its potential negative economic consequences on their infant economy in 1979. This article examines the consequences of this policy on marital matching and family size decisions. Using a simple General Equilibrium model, we show how by constraining marital output on the quantity of childr...