کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
139988 162663 2014 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A comparison of approaches for estimating the effect of women's education on the probability of using modern contraceptive methods in Malawi
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
مقایسه روش های برآورد اثر آموزش زنان بر احتمال استفاده از روشهای پیشگیری از بارداری مدرن در مالاوی
کلمات کلیدی
C14؛ C26؛ J13 آموزش؛ درونزا؛ مدل های افزودنی کلی؛ روشهای پیشگیری از بارداری مدرن. مدل های متغیر ابزاری
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی اجتماعی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Education–contraceptive use relationship follows a non-linear increasing pattern.
• Endogeneity of education is accounted for using a flexible two-stage approach.
• The assumption of linear or pre-specified effects of continuous covariates is relaxed using penalized regression splines.
• If endogeneity is not accounted for then biased estimates are expected.

The aim of this study is to estimate the effect of education on the probability of married Malawian women using modern contraceptive methods by accounting for both observed and unobserved confounders. We conduct a sensitivity analysis and compare the results of naive models with instrumental variable models to account for the potential endogeneity of education. Our findings demonstrate conflicting results between the two modelling approaches. The naive models report smaller education effects on the probability of using modern contraceptive methods compared to instrumental variable models. We also find that by relaxing the functional form assumption on the effect of continuous covariates, using a flexible instrumental variable model, the education's effect follows a positive, nonlinear pattern. This finding is not observed with a classic instrumental variable model.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The Social Science Journal - Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 361–367
نویسندگان
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