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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Health, education and family planning in the Philippines: governmental

initiatives and household choice.

AUTHORS

Gonzalez E

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1991. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population

Association of America, Washington, D.C., March 21-23, 1991. [2], 74 p.

ABSTRACT

This study assesses the impact of government services on fertility reduction and building human capital in the

Philippines, as families respond to the differences in prices and costs of subsidized services in terms of quantity or

quality of children. The thesis is that provision of social services, such as health care, schools, and family

planning, can be orchestrated to implement the joint public policy goals of decreased population growth and

improved human capital formation, even though each service evaluated alone would be unappreciated. the data

source was the 1978 and 1983 Bicol Multipurpose Surveys. Bicol is one of the poorest administrative regions in the

Philippines. The statistical technique is the reduced-form household demand model of Housman and Taylor, the

merges household and community level data, relying on instrumental variable (IV) estimation techniques that resolve

the combined problem of unobserved effects and endogeneity of the program variables. IV results suggest that

households do respond to variations in price of government programs by shifting family resources from an assured

quantity of children to fewer but healthier and better educated children. If standard regression analysis had been

used, the hypothesis would have been rejected, and the whole Bicol health care system would have been considered

ineffective in lowering fertility and raising educational status of children. An important finding is the Bicol residents

are indifferent to travel time and costs and use clinics as readily as outreach practitioners. The study also suggests

that family planning subsidies increase the costs of prenatal care relative to medical care. Similarly, schools

increase the opportunity costs of schooling relative to short-term and on-the-job training which produce short-term

economic gains for the household. To wean children away from farm work and increase school attendance,

disincentives on child labor should be built in. Rather than simply pour government resources into gaps in education

and health care delivery, policies should be designed and integrated in a way to maximize results in terms of

national goals. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2039-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Health, education and family planning in the Philippines:

governmental initiatives and household choice.", is(are) Gonzalez E. The source of this article is "[Unpublished]

1991. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D.C., March 21-23,

1991. [2], 74 p.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT3T 2039-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12039

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