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ERIC Number: ED650984
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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Could We Level the Playing Field? Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, Nonmarital Fertility, and Poverty in the United States
Lawrence L. Wu; Nicholas D. E. Mark
Grantee Submission, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences v4 n3 p144-166 2018
Could we combat poverty by reducing the number of unintended and nonmarital births? This article proposes a federal policy that would provide all women with information about, and free access to, a range of contraceptive services, including long-acting reversible contraceptives; reviews what it is that we do and do not know; discusses several dynamic selection mechanisms by which this policy could lead to poverty reductions; stresses the need for longitudinal randomized intent-to-treat pilots that would provide causal evidence on whether this policy would in fact reduce poverty; and provides rough estimates of take-up, costs, and benefits were such a policy to substantially increase the use of highly effective contraceptive methods.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B140037
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