DeGraff D S, Bilsborrow R E, Guilkey D K
Department of Economics, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011-8947, USA.
Demography. 1997 Aug;34(3):385-98.
We use household and community data from the Philippines to estimate a multilevel model of contraceptive use. We go beyond previous efforts in this field by developing a structural model that recognizes joint endogeneity and the temporal ordering of variables. by considering a wider range of community influences on fertility behavior, and by employing an econometric procedure allowing for a multilevel error structure. The results suggest that there are significant effects on fertility behavior of community-level family planning services, labor-conditions, and infrastructure development. These results provide insights regarding the structural determinants of contraceptive use and fertility that are useful for drawing policy implications.
我们使用来自菲律宾的家庭和社区数据来估计避孕措施使用的多层次模型。我们超越了该领域以往的研究，开发了一个认识到联合内生性和变量时间顺序的结构模型，考虑了更广泛的社区对生育行为的影响，并采用了允许多层次误差结构的计量程序。结果表明，社区层面的计划生育服务、劳动条件和基础设施发展对生育行为有显著影响。这些结果提供了关于避孕措施使用和生育的结构决定因素的见解，有助于得出政策含义。
