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The demand for reproductive health services: an application of control function approach. Paper prepared for presentation to the 12th annual conference of the African Econometric society, 4-6 July 2007, university of cape town, South Africa. This is a distillation from our earlier joint work, entitled, “the demand for Reproductive health services: frameworks of analysis”, issued as a framework Paper for the collaborative project on reproductive health, economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa, AERC, Nairobi.
(2007)
Ou Ajakaiye, AERC, Nairobi, email: olu.ajakaiye@aercafrica.org
Germano Mwabu, University of Nairobi, email: mwabu@kenyaweb.com
Problem statement. Sub-Saharan Africa has the worst indicators of reproductive
health in the ...
Urban households ruralizing their livelihoods: The changing nature of urban-rural linkages in an East African town
(2004)
As far as rural-urban linkages in sub-Saharan Africa are concerned, the focus has so far
predominantly been on the urban dwellers contributing to the livelihood of the rural ones,
usually through remittances from family ...
The demand for reproductive health services: frameworks of analysis
(2007)
The paper reviews a unified model of demand for health care inputs and health production, first
proposed by Rosenzweig and Schultz (1982), and shows how the model can be applied to design
and implement policies to improve ...
Explaining Sexual Orientation: A Lakatosian Appraisal of the Endocrine Research Program
(2005)
In this paper I distinguish two main hypotheses within the hormonal paradigm for explaining the etiology of human male homosexual orientation: the postnatal and the prenatal hormone hypotheses. Using Imre Lakatos' influential ...
The Challenges to Literature in Research and Development
(Kenya DAAD Association (KDSA), 2005)
Kasida ya Hamziyyah (part 1)
(2001)
Gender, governance and conflicts in Africa
(2002)
"Civil War is Africa's self-inflicted wound. More than one African in five lives in a country
that is fighting a war, and nearly 20 countries have experienced civil war since 1960. The
continuing conflicts that ravage ...