Exploring unobserved household living conditions in multilevel choice modeling: An application to contraceptive adoption by Indian women.

This research analyzes the effect of the poverty-wealth dimension on contraceptive adoption by Indian women when no direct measures of income/expenditures are available to use as covariates. The index-Household Living Conditions (HLC)-is based on household assets and dwelling characteristics and is...

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Main Authors: José G Dias, Isabel Tiago de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5791993?pdf=render