In Bangladesh, famHy planning workers 'visits reduce the costs
of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand
or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family
planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on
later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal
data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for
adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visits in the current
round are significant. Therefore family planning workers' visits affect
women's contraceptive behavior by decreasing the costs of contraception.
Results of contraceptive discontinuation hazard models
further support this hypothesis.