Seshadri, Ananth; Zhou, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, could family planning access affect intergenerational persistence of economic status? We extend the standard Becker …-Tomes model by incorporating an endogenous family planning choice. When the model is calibrated to match observed patterns of … counterfactual where states improve access to family planning services for the poor, intergenerational mobility improves by 0 …