Family Planning and Child Health Care
Effect of the Peruvian Programa de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar, 1996-2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4119601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianna Battaglia (0000-0002-0087-1469, University of Alicante), Nina Pallarés (University of Alicante) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-64 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/padr.12312 |
| OpenAlex | W3004701385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
Our study estimates the effects of exposure to a family planning program which promoted surgical contraception for the first time in Peru on women's use of birth control methods and their children's health. While a broad program, the Programa de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar forced many indigenous women to undergo sterilization. We compare provinces affected by the program earlier with provinces affected later, before and after the policy. Overall, the results indicate that women in treated areas were more likely to use both temporary and permanent contraceptive methods and their children were less likely to die within their first year of life, partly due to longer breastfeeding. However, we observe heterogeneity by ethnicity. In treated provinces, nonindigenous children benefited from the policy regardless of their mothers' choice of contraceptive method, while there were few positive impacts for indigenous children whose mothers underwent sterilization. This suggests that coercive or aggressively implemented family planning programs may not confer health benefits on children
Birth control · Breastfeeding · Business · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Family planning · Female sterilization · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Reproductive health · Research methodology · Sociology · Sterilization (economics) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Pediatrics
When sterilizations lower immunizations
Los estudios de población en los países andino-amazónicos (Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú)
“It makes the buzz” – putting the demographic dividend under scrutiny
How many women were sterilized without informed consent in Peru in the 1990s government campaign
Counter-Demography
Estimating the Impact of Sterilization under a Government Campaign Using Contaminated Treatment Data
Raising Awareness About the Risk of Irregular Migration
Family planning
Parental Educational Investment and Children’s Academic Risk
The Impacts of Family Size on Investment in Child Quality
Evidence for Protection by Breast-Feeding Against Infant Deaths From Infectious Diseases in Brazil
Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Politics in Peru under Alberto Fujimori
Impact of the Family Health Program on Infant Mortality in Brazilian Municipalities
Family Planning and Women’s and Children’s Health
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children
The Trade-off between Child Quantity and Quality
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children's Education
Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |