And please note that while the session is listed under the fertility/SRH track, submissions to this session are welcome from all corners of the population sciences

I was part of a friend group of four girls in high school. Three of us have no kids and one of us has 8. Voila!

Also, yay -- a literal expert!

Can't wait to listen to this!

Unless Elon’s type of interventionist eugenics wins out over Vance’s?

So please consider this our ode to the DHS, which was, to paraphrase Churchill, the absolute worst source of data -- except for all the others

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A particular joy for me was moving beyond the tired label of "while in need" for people discontinuing contraception, and instead applying a reproductive autonomy framework to understand why people might want to start and stop different methods across the reproductive life course.

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In this analysis, we look at contraceptive use dynamics across 55 countries using DHS data.

We pay special attention to young people and the way that their contraceptive use patterns differ from those of older women.

Use, discontinuation, and method mix all really differ!

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