Demographic behavior and poverty: Micro-level evidence from Southern Sudan

Cohen, Barney; House, William J.

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(94)90146-5

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“…Empirically, there has not been any consensus as to the nature of the relationship between fertility and poverty. The mixed empirical results include; no relationship between fertility and poverty in Botswana (Chernichovsky 1984), a positive relationship in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia (Ketkar 1979), a negative relationship in Burkina Faso (Langani 1997) and in Southern Sudan (Cohen and House 1994). Further to that, I would like to thank Martin Wittenberg for his invaluable comments.…”

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Impact of fertility on objective and subjective poverty in Malawi

Mussa

2014

Development Studies Research

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The paper uses data from the Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS2) to investigate the impact of fertility on poverty in rural Malawi. We use two measures of poverty; the objective and the subjective. After accounting for endogeneity of fertility by using son preference as an instrumental variable, we …nd that fertility increases the probability of being objectively poor. This e¤ect is robust for all poverty lines used. It is also robust to accounting for economies of scale and household composition as well as assuming that poverty is continuous. We also …nd that when fertility is treated as an exogenous variable its impact is underestimated. When poverty is measured subjectively, the results are opposite to those of objective poverty. We …nd that fertility lowers the likelihood of feeling poor, and that fertility is exogenous with respect to subjective poverty.

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Impact of fertility on objective and subjective poverty in Malawi

Mussa

2014

Development Studies Research

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Consumption smoothing, the cost of children, and family size desired in poor households: empirical evidence from family planning villages in Sintang Regency, the Province of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Suratman,

Restiatun

2024

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There are many factors that may prevent individuals from achieving consumption smoothing, especially for poor individuals or households. Liquidity barriers for the poor can be overcome by pension programs financed by the government and intergenerational transfers. This research aims at investigating determinants of the family size decisions in poor households. This research uses primary data from survey questionnaires conducted among 447 poor households selected in Family Planning Villages throughout Sintang Regency. The family size decision is only affected by parents’ expectation of an intergenerational transfer. This variable has a significant positive effect, and the possibility of an old-age pension scheme provided by the government does not significantly affect the family size decision. This may be due to the fact that there has been no pension scheme for poor households in Indonesia. The cost of children does not influence the poor household’s family size decision. This is probably due to family package assistance provided by the government which can help reduce the cost of children. The cost of daily living, health and education costs have a significant positive effect on the burden of these costs. The findings of this study indicate that the family assistance package provided by the government does not encourage poor households to have a larger family, meaning that the provision of family assistance packages does not contradict the Family Planning Program. It also provides evidence that the government’s pension scheme for poor households can be also considered as a means of controlling the population growth, because this scheme will lower the expectation of poor households to receive intergenerational transfers.

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Demographic behavior and poverty: Micro-level evidence from Southern Sudan

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Impact of fertility on objective and subjective poverty in Malawi

Impact of fertility on objective and subjective poverty in Malawi

Consumption smoothing, the cost of children, and family size desired in poor households: empirical evidence from family planning villages in Sintang Regency, the Province of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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