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Fertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorNorling, Johannes
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T21:36:35Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T21:36:35Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-08
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses dozens of large-scale household surveys to measure average changes in fertility following hundreds of droughts, floods, earthquakes, tropical cyclones, other storms, and epidemics in Africa between 1980 and 2016. Droughts are the largest and longest-lasting type of disaster on average, and fertility decreases by between 3.5 and 6.8 percent in the five years after droughts. Fertility changes are smaller or less clear after other types of disasters. Comparisons between countries, rather than within countries, drive these findings. There is substantial geographic heterogeneity in the direction and magnitude of the changes in fertility after disasters, driven by characteristics of the disasters and survey respondents. Fertility decreases especially after more recent droughts and in areas prone to drought. Fertility also decreases after longer floods. Fertility decreases after epidemics for women near the start and end of their childbearing careers, but increases for women in their late twenties and early thirties.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099705212112398877/IDU06f3f0d2b006150422508de10d9090245d49c
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41141
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41141
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectFERTILITY
dc.subjectNATURAL DISASTERS
dc.subjectEPIDEMICS
dc.subjectAFRICA
dc.titleFertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africaen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleFertility Following Natural Disasters and Epidemics in Africa
okr.date.disclosure2023-12-11
okr.date.lastmodified2023-12-11T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeJournal Article
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099705212112398877/IDU06f3f0d2b006150422508de10d9090245d49c
okr.guid099705212112398877
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhac011
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41141
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34212202
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okr.identifier.report186348
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Reproductive Health
okr.topicEnvironment::Natural Disasters
okr.unitOff of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume36(4)
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