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2. Rural income-generating programs and fertility limitation : evidence from a microdemographic study in Nepal
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Axinn, William G. (author / Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06517
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 57 (3) : 396-413
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, Participation in rural development programs that organize members into local cooperative groups can alter the decision-making environment facing couples to reflect some of the negative consequences of childbearing. This study uses data from Nepal, collected through a combination of ethnographic and survey methods, to test the effects of participation in such a development program on fertility behavior. Results demonstrate that program participants are much more likely to use contraceptives to limit their fertility than are non-participants. The study provides empirical support for theories linking this type of institutional change to fertility and indicates a policy option that can allow some negative consequences of childbearing to affect couples' fertility decisions. (author)