The Impact of Unanticipated Economic Shocks on the Demand for Contraceptives: Evidence from Uganda
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Summary
The results indicate that women in Uganda, along with their husbands, use contraceptives strategically to postpone childbirth during negative shocks, and suggestive evidence-linking preventive childbirth decisions to food insecurity during drought is found.
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- article
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- 2017-12-01
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- 20
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