The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These … often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence … affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …

research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …

This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of … abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual circumstances. The economic literature on abortion … policy is broad, studying abortion reforms that have occurred over the past two centuries, although there is a concentration …

transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …