Restrictions on abortion are pervasive, yet relatively little is known about the financial and economic impact of being … denied an abortion on pregnant women who seek one. This paper evaluates the economic consequences of being denied an abortion … women receiving or being denied a wanted abortion in the United States. Some women had pregnancies close to the facility …

Donohue and Levitt (2001) presented evidence that the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s played an important … decades: "When a steady state is reached roughly twenty years from now, the impact of abortion will be roughly twice as great … as the impact felt so far. Our results suggest that all else equal, legalized abortion will account for persistent …

The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the … number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while abstracting from cohort … and general equilibrium effects, we compare birth month cohorts on either side of the abortion regime. For both the …

effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion. In this study we evaluate the effects of a Tennessee law enacted in 2015 … that requires women to make an additional trip to abortion providers for state-directed counseling at least 48 hours before … they can obtain an abortion. Based on our difference-in-differences approach, estimates indicate that the introduction of …

In this paper, we estimate the impacts of abortion clinic closures on access to clinics in terms of distance and … congestion, abortion rates, and birth rates. Legislation regulating abortion providers enacted in Wisconsin in 2011 …-2013 ultimately led to the closure of two of five abortion clinics in Wisconsin, increasing the average distance to the nearest clinic …

collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent …

Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence …. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has … find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

went into effect, not one of Texas's 54 non-hospital abortion providers met the requirements of a surgical center. The … %, from 3642 in 2003 to 446 in 2004, while the number of residents who left the state for a late abortion almost quadrupled …. By 2006, an ASC had opened in 4 major cities down from 9 in 2003 but the abortion rate 16 weeks or more gestation …

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 …