The Choice of Effective Contraception for Women in Latin America: Inspecting the Role of Education, Empowerment and Religious Affiliation
(2018) EKHS42 20181Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, having contraception use and contraception effectiveness as outcome variables. I find that women who are more educated and more empowered have higher odds of using contraception, compared to women with lower educational attainment and autonomy. Being affiliated to Christian confessions halves women’s odds of using contraception, compared to the odds... (More)
- This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, having contraception use and contraception effectiveness as outcome variables. I find that women who are more educated and more empowered have higher odds of using contraception, compared to women with lower educational attainment and autonomy. Being affiliated to Christian confessions halves women’s odds of using contraception, compared to the odds of women who do not identify as affiliated with either Catholicism of Protestantism. The same association holds between the predictors and the use of more effective methods, compared to no method. However, education, empowerment and no affiliation to the Church increment the odds of using less effective contraception at the same pace as they do with more effective contraception, suggesting that the explanatory variables affect contraception use more powerfully than contraception effectiveness. (Less)
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- author
- Errico, Maria LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHS42 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Contraceptive use, Contraceptive Effectiveness, women, education, empowerment, religion, Latin America
- language
- English
- id
- 8951941
- date added to LUP
- 2018-06-21 13:43:20
- date last changed
- 2018-06-21 13:43:20
@misc{8951941, abstract = {{This paper studies the relationship between contraceptive adoption by women and three relevant predictors: women’s education, empowerment and religious affiliation. I employ recent information on women’s characteristics and the institutional environment for six Latin American countries, in the years 2013-2015, to perform a cross-section analysis with binary and multinomial logistic regressions, having contraception use and contraception effectiveness as outcome variables. I find that women who are more educated and more empowered have higher odds of using contraception, compared to women with lower educational attainment and autonomy. Being affiliated to Christian confessions halves women’s odds of using contraception, compared to the odds of women who do not identify as affiliated with either Catholicism of Protestantism. The same association holds between the predictors and the use of more effective methods, compared to no method. However, education, empowerment and no affiliation to the Church increment the odds of using less effective contraception at the same pace as they do with more effective contraception, suggesting that the explanatory variables affect contraception use more powerfully than contraception effectiveness.}}, author = {{Errico, Maria}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{The Choice of Effective Contraception for Women in Latin America: Inspecting the Role of Education, Empowerment and Religious Affiliation}}, year = {{2018}}, }