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 …

We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document … dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an abortion without involving a parent or judge … present, the average distance to a confidential abortion has increased from 55 to 454 miles. Using both double and triple …

legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in … 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 …

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 …

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 …

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm … fertility behavior. Women threatened by job displacement bring births forward to exploit dismissal protection, a strategy that …

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

This chapter explores trends, causes and consequences of nonmarital and teen fertility in the United States and in … planning technologies, that likely contribute to the large changes in patterns of marriage and fertility observed in developed … nonmarital and teen fertility on adults' and children's outcomes remain, though recent evidence suggests more modest impacts than …

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 …