Inchauste, Gabriela, Alam, Shamma Adeeb, and Serajuddin, Umar

Jordan’s economy grew at an average of 6.7 percent a year between 2000 and 2008. This performance was better than the average of the Middle East and North Africa region as a whole, which grew at a rate of about 4.5 percent a...

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Alam, Shamma Adeeb and Pörtner, Claus C.

This paper examines the relationship between income shocks and fertility decisions. Using panel data from Tanzania, we estimate the impact of agricultural shocks on pregnancies, births, and contraception use. The likelihood of...

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