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    Socio-economic and health impacts of family planning support for vulnerable women and men in the Netherlands

    23 January 2025

    MAG 2024-II. Authors: Anouk van Veldhoven (Universiteit Utrecht – Faculteit Recht, Economie, Bestuur en Organisatie).

    Making well-deliberated and informed decisions about family planning and contraceptive use does not come naturally to everyone. Although vulnerable individuals are shown to have lower uptake of contraceptives, evidence on targeted interventions to assist vulnerable individuals in their family planning is lacking. With this study, I aim to provide causal evidence of the impacts of family planning support for vulnerable women and men on contraceptive use, pregnancies and other broader health-related and socio-economic outcomes. The study will measure the impacts of a family planning support program in the Netherlands, named Nu Niet Zwanger (“Not pregnant now,” henceforth NNZ), that aims to support vulnerable adults of reproductive age in making well thought-out choices regarding family planning and contraceptive use, in order to reduce unwanted pregnancies and its negative effects, and improve wellbeing and development of (children in) vulnerable households.

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