Lin, Wanchuan; Pantano, Juan - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 2, pp. 479-508
We quantify the impact of abortion legalization on the incidence of unintended births. While underlying much of the … literature on abortion legalization, this effect had only been approximated by previous work. We find a strong decline in the … abortion legalization across states interacted with the mother’s religion (which facilitates or hinders legal abortion take up …