Social Transmission and the Spread of Modern Contraception in Rural Ethiopia

Alexandra Alvergne; Mhairi A. Gibson; Eshetu Gurmu; Ruth Mace

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022515

Social Transmission and the Spread of Modern Contraception in Rural Ethiopia

Alexandra Alvergne^*
, Mhairi A. Gibson
, Eshetu Gurmu
, Ruth Mace

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Socio-economic development has proven to be insufficient to explain the time and pace of the human demographic transition. Shifts to low fertility norms have thus been thought to result from social diffusion, yet to date, micro-level studies are limited and are often unable to disentangle the effect of social transmission from that of extrinsic factors. We used data which included the first ever use of modern contraception among a population of over 900 women in four villages in rural Ethiopia, where contraceptive prevalence is still low (

Original language	English
Article number	22515
Number of pages	10
Journal	PLOS ONE
Volume	6
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022515
Publication status	Published - 22 Jul 2011

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Keywords

PARENTAL INVESTMENT
DEMOGRAPHIC-TRANSITION
FERTILITY TRANSITIONS
LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS
NETWORKS
EVOLUTIONARY
WOMEN
IDENTIFICATION
BANGLADESH
BEHAVIOR

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