Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether … abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate … that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths …

the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing …

the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing …

clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In-state abortions fell 20% and births rose 3% in counties … that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Births increased 1% and contraceptive purchases rose 8% in … services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … incidence of low birth weight and school enrollment for teenagers, with worsening results associated with GDP declines. …

aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … incidence of low birth weight and school enrollment for teenagers, with worsening results associated with GDP declines. …

technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both …

burdensome for women seeking abortions—is estimated to prevent 20.5% of women seeking an abortion from reaching a provider, and …I compile and disseminate novel panel data sets measuring county-level travel distances to abortion facilities and … resident abortion rates. Using these data and exploiting temporal and spatial variation in distances, I implement difference …

-trip waiting periods do not have substantial effects on abortions or births. Two-trip waiting periods are estimated to reduce … abortions and delay those that still occur, increasing second trimester abortions by 19.1%, reducing resident abortion rates by … are larger in counties that are far from abortion providers and in counties with high poverty and unemployment. These …