Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic … outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we empirically demonstrate these points. Despite a more than 5 percent increase in …

Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling … before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least … two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas increased the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours …

Extremely narrow election outcomes--such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots--are likely to … College system. Starting from probabilistic simulations of likely presidential election outcomes that are similar to the … output from election forecasting models, we calculate the likelihood of disputable, narrow outcomes under the Electoral …

's jurisdiction increases significantly pre-election, spiking 23%, with zero equivalent move for equivalently global (but domestic … industries, and when Senators serve as the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (which oversees the DOJ). Anti …

implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter …

One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they … judiciary. However, with the electoral college system in place, the incentives for fraud shift to swing states where the local …