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The Political Setting for Decisions on Family Planning
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... Family planning programs have multiple goals, making it hard to measure effectiveness or efficiency with one ratio. But as Mark Montgomery pointed out, this situation is hardly unique to family planning; health economists have developed methods for looking at cost functions when there are joint outputs (for example, teaching and patient care as joint outputs of hospitals)
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