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SUMMARY:"Family Planning\, Children's Human Capital\, and Women’s Well-B
 eing: Experimental Evidence from Urban Malawi"\, with Professor Mahesh Ven
 kat Karra - Professor Mahesh Venkat Karra
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260209T140000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260209T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Mahesh will present findings from a randomized controlled tria
 l in Malawi that identifies the causal impact of a comprehensive intervent
 ion to improve access to family planning and reproductive health services.
  A sample of married women who were either pregnant or had recently given 
 birth were randomly assigned to either an intervention arm or a control ar
 m. Women who were assigned to the intervention arm received a package of s
 ervices over a two-year period that included: 1) a family counseling\; 2) 
 free transportation to a high-quality family planning clinic\; and 3) reim
 bursements for family planning services\, including for the treatment of c
 ontraceptive-related side effects. Mahesh finds increases in postpartum co
 ntraceptive use (by 5.8 p.p.)\, which is marked by an increase in long-act
 ing method use (by 5.5 p.p.) after two years of intervention exposure. Est
 imates from an intent-to-treat survival analyses indicate that women in th
 e intervention group were 43.5 percent less likely to be pregnant within t
 wo years of their previous birth relative to the control group. In additio
 n\, the study finds that women who were assigned to the intervention arm w
 ere 5.3 p.p. more likely to be employed after two years of intervention ex
 posure. This increase in employment is driven by a 4.5 percentage point in
 crease in wage-earning labor. Finally\, the study finds that children born
  to mothers assigned to the intervention arm were 0.34 SD taller for their
  age and were 12.0 p.p. less likely to be stunted within a year of exposur
 e to the family planning intervention. Children born to mothers assigned t
 o the intervention arm also scored 0.23 SD higher on a caregiver-reported 
 measure of cognitive development after two years of intervention exposure.
  Taken together\, these findings suggest that improved access to family pl
 anning may have positive downstream effects on health that extend beyond i
 mpacts on contraceptive use and fertility.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Mahesh Ve
 nkat Karra
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