Knowledge into Action: A Guide to Research Utilization

Cernada, George P.

doi:10.2307/1965490

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“…Others studies use an experimental approach, randomly altering the price of condoms and oral contraceptives (Gadalla 1980, Lewis 1986, Cernada 1982, Ciszewski and Harvey 1995, Harvey 1994, among others), and have generally found contraceptives to be relatively price inelastic. Ciszewski and Harvey (1995), in particular, looked at the effects of an increase in the prices of social marketing condoms and oral contraceptives in Bangladesh and found significant decreases in those contraceptive sales (both condoms and the Pill), which they used to imply that overall demand for contraceptives had decreased.…”

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The Impact of Subsidized Birth Control for College Women: Evidence from the Deficit Reduction Act

Collins

Hershbein

2013

SSRN Journal

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This paper uses a unique natural experiment to investigate the sensitivity of American college women's contraceptive choice to the price of oral birth control and the importance of its use on educational and health outcomes. With the passage of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Congress inadvertently and unexpectedly increased the effective price of birth control pills ("the Pill") at college health centers more than three-fold, from $5 to $10 a month to between $30 and $50 a month. Using quasi-difference-in-difference and fixed effects methodologies and an intention-to-treat (ITT) design with two different data sets, we find that this policy change reduced use of the Pill by at least 1 to 1.8 percentage points, or 2 to 4 percent, among college women, on average. For college women who lacked health insurance or carried large credit card balances, the decline was two to three times as large. Women who lack insurance and have sex infrequently appear to substitute toward emergency contraception; uninsured women who are frequent sex participants appear to substitute toward non-prescription forms of birth control. Additionally, we find small but significant decreases in frequency of intercourse and the number of sex partners, suggesting that some women may be substituting away from sexual behavior in general.

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The Impact of Subsidized Birth Control for College Women: Evidence from the Deficit Reduction Act

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Hershbein

2013

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“…It also was the government's "Return to the Mainland" rallying cry, reminding its inhabitants that Taiwan was administratively only a province of the Republic of China, which had been headquartered temporarily in Taipei since the departure from the China Mainland. This "small island," about 90 miles off the southeast coast of China, by 1965 had one of the highest population densities in the world-more than 350 persons per square kilometer, even though the eastern half of the island is mountainous with few inhabitants (Cernada, 1982).…”

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“…We cover here the special features of the setting, the reasons for the reversal of pronatalism, the key agencies, the details about program operations, the evaluation methods, the effects on fertility, and the dissemination of Taiwan's experience to other countries. The story is drawn primarily from T. H. Sun (2001), S. M. Keeny et al (1970), G. Cernada (1982), as well as writings by M. C. Chang et al (1987), Chen, T. H. et al (2003), L. P. Chow (1970), R. Freedman and Y. Takeshita (1969), and Tsai and Cernada (1982).…”

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Taiwan's Population and Family Planning Efforts: An Historical Perspective

Cernada

Sun

Chang

et al. 2007

Int Q Community Health Educ

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The unprecedented decline of Taiwan's natural population increase rate from 3% in 1963 to 1.9% in 1973, attributed primarily to an increasing use of contraception, brought universal attention to one of the first and most successful national family planning programs, at a time when successes were few. Taiwan met its goal of decreasing its natural increase rate despite its young population, increasing numbers of women of childbearing ages, a strong preference for sons and a per capita income at the outset in 1963 of less than U.S.$200. Recognition of this achievement brought thousands of professionals, particularly from developing countries, to study the program firsthand: more than 3,000 during 1970--73 alone. This was matched by an avalanche of publications about the program that appeared around the world, written by practitioners, academics and others. This article tells the story of this success.

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Knowledge into Action: A Guide to Research Utilization

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The Impact of Subsidized Birth Control for College Women: Evidence from the Deficit Reduction Act

The Impact of Subsidized Birth Control for College Women: Evidence from the Deficit Reduction Act

Taiwan's Population and Family Planning Efforts: An Historical Perspective

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