Reproducibility package for The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs
Overview
This paper examines how women’s fertility responds to increases in their earnings and household wealth using six experiments conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. Contrary to predictions that an increase in female earnings raises the opportunity cost of childbearing and that this will lower fertility, we find that an increase in the profits of female business-owners in Togo and Ethiopia results in them having more children. We also observe a positive fertility response to increases in the value of household assets induced by land formalization programs in Benin and Ghana. These results are driven by women who are in most need of sons for support in old age or in case of widowhood. Our findings suggest that women’s lack of long-term economic security is an important driver of fertility in sub-Saharan Africa.
Reproducibility Package
| Repository name | URI |
|---|---|
| Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank) | https://reproducibility.worldbank.org |
Reproducibility
The code was reproduced on the author's computer with the following specifications:
• OS: macOS version 10.15.7
• Processor: Intel Core i7 processor running at 2.8 GHz
• Software version: Stata version 17
~5 minutes runtime
The reproducibility verification was conducted virtually due to the confidential nature of the data, which was not shared with the reproducibility team and is not included in the package. The package does include the code, results, and log files, allowing replicators to review the entire process used by the authors. For more details about the data, please refer to the README file or contact Mathilde Sage at mathilde.sage@dauphine.eu.
Data
The datasets used in this meta-analysis are not publicly available. They consist of proprietary data collected by the World Bank Gender Innovation Lab, which was shared with the authors. As most of the contributing authors have pending publications that utilize these datasets, they have chosen not to make the data publicly available before their own publications.
Description
| Author | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Aletheia Donald | World Bank | adonald@worldbank.org |
| Markus Goldstein | Amazon | markusgold@gmail.com |
| Tricia Koroknay-Palicz | World Bank | tgonwa@worldbank.org |
| Mathilde Sage | Université Paris Dauphine | mathilde.sage@dauphine.eu |
2024-06
Scope and coverage
| Location | Code |
|---|---|
| Sub-Saharan Africa | SSA |
Disclaimer
The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.
Access and rights
| Name | URI |
|---|---|
| Modified BSD3 | https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/ |
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Mathilde Sage | Université Paris Dauphine | mathilde.sage@dauphine.eu |
| Reproducibility WBG | World Bank | reproducibility@worldbank.org |
Information on metadata
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproducibility WBG | DIME | World Bank - Development Impact Department | Verification and preparation of metadata |
2024-06-13
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