Arbeitspapier
Television and Contraceptive Use – Panel Evidence from Rural Indonesia
In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for infl uencing behavior, particularly as regards reproductive decisions. Using household panel data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), this paper explores the eff ect of television ownership on the use of modern contraceptives in rural Indonesia. Although results from a pooled regression suggest a statistically signifi cant and positive relationship between contraceptive use and television ownership, this fi nding is not robust to fixed effects estimates that control for time-invariant unobserved characteristics. By contrast, several other individual and community-level determinants, most notably the presence of midwives and health services, are statistically significant in the fixed effects model. We conclude that the growing corpus of cross-sectional evidence on a link between television and contraception should be interpreted cautiously.
- ISBN
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978-3-86788-419-8
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 365
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Subject
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contraceptive use
television
fertility
technology adoption
rural development
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Peters, Jörg
Strupat, Christoph
Vance, Colin
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Veröffentlichung
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Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
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Essen
- (when)
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2012
- DOI
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doi:10.4419/86788419
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Peters, Jörg
- Strupat, Christoph
- Vance, Colin
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
Time of origin
- 2012
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