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Catalina Herrera-Almanza

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
cataher@illinois.edu

Catalina Herrera-Almanza is an Assistant Professor in the Agricultural and Consumer Economics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she has been an Assistant Professor of economics and international affairs at Northeastern University. Her research interests are development economics and gender, with a primary focus on population, health, and education issues.

Posts by Catalina Herrera-Almanza

Bring a friend: Leveraging financial and peer support to improve women’s reproductive agency

In the second of two articles about women’s fertility and family planning, S Anukriti et al. highlight findings which reveal that women are more likely to avail of family planning services if they a...

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Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving mother-in-law approval of family planning in India

In the first of two articles about women’s fertility and family planning, Anukriti et al. discuss the influence that mothers-in-law have on women’s access to family planning services, with them on...

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सास अपनी बहुओं के सामाजिक नेटवर्क तथा प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य को कैसे प्रभावित करती हैं?

परिवार के सदस्यों द्वारा लगाए गए प्रतिबंधात्मक सामाजिक मानदंड एवं रणनीतिक बाधाएं, महिलाओं की सामाजिक नेटवर्क तक पहुंच और उससे प्राप्‍त होने वाले लाभ को सीमित कर सकती हैं। ग्रामीण उत्तर प्रदेश में एक स...

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How mothers-in-law influence women’s social networks and reproductive health

Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit women’s access to and benefit from social networks. Based on a survey in rural Uttar Pradesh, this article show...

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