Fertility Response to Natural Disasters : The Case of Three High Mortality Earthquakes

Finlay, Jocelyn E.

Fertility Response to Natural Disasters : The Case of Three High Mortality Earthquakes

2009

Finlay, Jocelyn E.

The event of a natural disaster, and being directly affected by it, brings a large shock to life-cycle outcomes. In addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality earthquakes: Gujarat, India, in 2001; North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in 2005; and Izmit, Turkey, in 1999. There is evidence of a positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality. The results in this study are consistent with those of other studies that also find a positive fertility response following exposure to a disaster.

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child health developing countries disaster risk reduction earthquakes elderly family planning family size fertility flooding household income hurricanes insurance migration mortality natural disasters nutrition public health reconstruction reproductive health risk analysis rural areas savings sustainable development tsunamis urban areas vulnerability wages workforce

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Wind storm; Smaller families; Levels of education; Child survival; Household level; Policy research; Epidemic; Number of children; Child mortality; Changes in fertility; Progress; Old-age; Catastrophic event; Extended family; Population and development; Access to contraception; Centre for research on the epidemiology; Larger families; Ministry of health; Large families; Average family size; Natural disaster; Family health; Flood; Account; First birth; Fertility preferences; Fertility survey; Fault lines; Child labor; Number of people; Disaster risk; Older children; Family formation; Floods; Traditional family; Fewer children; Work force; Policy change; Woman; Center for population; Respect; Mother; Disability; State planning; Spouse; Earthquake; Disaster reduction; Casualties; Policy research working paper; Birth rates; Place of residence; Disaster zone; Demographic factors; Allocation of resources; Family unit; Family ties; Cred; Population studies; Low-income countries; Human life; Development network

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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4883http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/World BankCreative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0

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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4883

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Fertility Response to Natural Disasters : The Case of Three High Mortality Earthquakes

2009

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