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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537794
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How Costs Limit Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S : A Randomized Control Trial
Bailey, Martha J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner; Prettyman, Alexa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322784
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Family Planning, Now and Later : Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up
Bau, Natalie; Henning, David J.; Low, Corinne; Millett … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635698
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information
Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Genetic factors play a major role in the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Observable genetic factors could impact household planning and medical care if they contain actionable information, meaning that they i) are associated with significant harms, ii) reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512035
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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938691
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Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth
Seshadri, Ananth; Zhou, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172190
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Contraception and Fertility : Household Production Under Uncertainty
Michael, Robert T. - 1973
Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479104
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Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception
Miller, Grant - 2020
partners' fertility preferences with women's, and correcting women's expectations about pregnancy risk absent contraception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481853
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"Momma's Got the Pill" : How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
Bailey, Martha J. - 2009
The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463972