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Fertility and Rural Electrification in Bangladesh
남아시아 일반 국외연구자료 기타 Tomiki FUJII and Abu S. SHONCHOY IDE-JETRO 발간일 : 2015-03-01 등록일 : 2015-04-08 원문링크
Abstract
We use a panel dataset from Bangladesh to examine the relationship between fertility and the adoption of electricity with the latter instrumented by infrastructure development and the quality of service delivery. We find that the adoption of electricity reduces fertility, and this impact is more pronounced when the household already has two or more children. This observation can be explained by a simple household model of time use, in which adoption of electricity affects only the optimal number of children but not necessarily current fertility behavior if the optimal number has not yet been reached.