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Women’s empowerment and fertility preferences in high fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: Nearly all countries with fertility levels of more than five children per woman are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prestige, insurance in old age, and replacement in case of child deaths are related to preferences for large families. In this paper, we examine the association between women’s empo...

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Autores principales: Atake, Esso-Hanam, Gnakou Ali, Pitaloumani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6451210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30953494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-019-0747-9