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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess … availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion. Our results show that the legalization of abortion … ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted. Interestingly, we find that while abortion …
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There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion … instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion … of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich …
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Previous research has revealed much global convergence over the past several decades in life expectancy at birth and in infant mortality, which are closely linked. But trends in the variance of length of life, and in the variance of length of adult life in particular, are less well understood. I...
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Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS...
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-form model, we find abortion and neonatal intensive care availability to be the most important determinants of overall neonatal …, abortion availability has twice the impact of neonatal inexpensive care. Moreover, our results suggest that neonatal mortality …
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China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …
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participation of older males in Korea: 1955-2005 / Chulhee Lee ; comments: Kyungsoo Choi, Fumio Ohtake -- China and Hong Kong: long …-term effects of early-life development: evidence from the 1959-1961 China famine / Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, and …
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Ten years have passed since John Donohue and Steven Levitt initially proposed that legalized abortion played a major … of age-specific crime rates are inconsistent with a large cohort affect following the legalization of abortion …-specific arrest and homicide rates regressed on lagged abortion rates in the 1970s or indicators of abortion legalization in 1970 and …
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abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor …
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