The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

We are extremely grateful to Seikou Keita, Oumar Sory, Laurene Petitfour, Achille Tchibozo, Adama Sankoudouma, and especially Rose Dounialou and Pare Bakary for their outstanding field research management. We thank Sachet Bangia, Manasi Chhabra, Akhila Khovuri, Eva Lestant, Yannik Obeloeer, Vrinda Sharma and especially Camille Falezan for excellent research assistance. We are grateful to seminar participants at CEPR, CCPR at UCLA, INED, Paris 1, Cergy University, Friburg University, and to Paula Tavrow and Heini Vaisanen for insightful comments. This study has received approval from the Institutional Review Board at Northwestern University and Princeton University and from the Burkinabe Comite d'Ethique Pour La Recherche En Sante. The study is registered in the AEA RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0002885). We gratefully acknowledge grant funding from Fidelity Charitable, the Templeton Foundation, and the IPV Initiative at IPA. Rossi acknowledges support from NWO (grant VENI 451-17-012) and by the European Union (ERC, P3OPLE, ERC-2021-StG 101039252). This project was also supported by the California Center for Population Research at UCLA (CCPR), which receives core support (P2C- HD041022) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The content, views, and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, the European Research Council Executive Agency, or the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development or the National Institutes of Health. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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