Arends-Kuenning M
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 408 Mumford Hall, MC-710, 1301 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Demography. 2001 Nov;38(4):481-96. doi: 10.1353/dem.2001.0032.
In Bangladesh, family planning workers' visits reduce the costs of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visits in the current round are significant. Therefore family planning workers' visits affect women's contraceptive behavior by decreasing the costs of contraception. Results of contraceptive discontinuation hazard models further support this hypothesis.
在孟加拉国，计划生育工作者的家访降低了避孕成本，并且可能会增加需求。如果家访增加了需求，或者工作者的家访是有针对性的，那么计划生育工作者过去的家访应该会对随后采用避孕方法的概率产生积极且显著的影响。纵向数据表明，在采用避孕方法的风险模型中，过去的家访并不显著，而本轮的家访则是显著的。因此，计划生育工作者的家访通过降低避孕成本来影响女性的避孕行为。避孕措施停用风险模型的结果进一步支持了这一假设。
