Browsing by Author "Byker, Tanya"

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Causes and Consequences of Teen Childbearing: Evidence from a Reproductive Health Intervention in South Africa

Branson, Nicola; Byker, Tanya (2016-06)

The rollout of the National Adolescent Friendly Clinic Initiative (NAFCI) serves as a natural experiment to study the causes and consequences of early teen child bearing. Geolinking residence histories to the rollout, we ...
Causes and consequences of teen childbearing: Evidence from a reproductive health intervention in South Africa

Branson, Nicola; Byker, Tanya (Journal of Health Economics, 2018-01)

We use a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of a public health intervention aimed at reducing teenage childbearing. The geographic and timing variation in the rollout of the South African National Adolescent ...
Youth friendly clinics make inroads in reducing unintended teen births in South Africa

Branson, Nicola; Byker, Tanya (2016-04)

Despite widespread, freely available contraception and progressive reproductive health laws, most teen mothers report their last pregnancy as unintended or unplanned. This begs the question: Why are many sexually active ...

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