India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated … abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

problems. Our findings imply that mental health concerns cannot be used to justify restrictive abortion policies. Moreover …

largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …

Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …

This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights …. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right … in a model predicting that fathers with paternalistic preferences adopt a more polarised political position on abortion …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician …

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