Conjoint experiment explores how economic factors shape fertility preferences in women, highlighting implications for family planning.
BACKGROUNDEconomically insecure conditions may be driving young people's decisions to delay, forgo, or reduce childbearing.Yet establishing a causal link between economic resources and fertility is methodologically fraught.One approach has been to use survey experiments to manipulate hypothetical economic conditions and gauge respondents' fertility preferences.
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