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performed in New York State from 1971-1975 to analyze the impact of legalized abortion in New York on abortion and birth rates … of non-residents. We estimate that abortion rates declined by 12.0 percent for every hundred miles a woman lived from New … York in the years before Roe. If Roe were overturned average travel distance to the nearest abortion provider would …
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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 …
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collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent …
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We estimate the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access and abortions using variation generated by Texas … HB2, a "TRAP" law that shuttered nearly half of Texas' abortion clinics in late 2013. Our results suggest a substantial … reduce abortion rates by 15, 25, and 40 percent, respectively, while additional increases in distance appear to have no …
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state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The …, black women who were exposed to abortion reforms experienced large reductions in teen fertility and teen out …This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the …
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This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant …, having an abortion, and bearing a child. Aggregate, state-level data and microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of … experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …
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Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the … Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortion have this effect. We attempt to account for the potential … endogeneity of abortion laws by comparing the effects of liberal statutes to those of court injunctions ordering states to fund …
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legalized abortion. With monthly data on the number of births to white and black adolescents from January, 1963 to December … liberalization of the New York State abortion law in 1970. We found the level of births to black adolescents living in New York City … births between 1970 and 1971 were applied to the forecasted number of monthly births in 1988 and 1989. If legal abortion had …
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abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor …We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …
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ever born. Our results indicate that much of the reduction in fertility at the time abortion was legalized was permanent in …Previous research has convincingly shown that abortion legalization in the early 1970s led to a significant drop in … fertility at that time. But this decline may have either represented a delay in births from a point where they were have …
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