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We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level as a consequence of legal and judicial decisions in the late 2000s. We find...
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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 …
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This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...
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's reproductive health outcomes, particularly reducing rates of haemorrhage early in pregnancy. These improvements are most notable in …
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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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abortion-related information or services. Since first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, it has been enacted under every …
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Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling … before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least … two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas increased the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours …
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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 …
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transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births … of 2.3 percent relative to states where abortion was not restricted. …
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services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in … access to abortion and family planning services, which we leverage to understand the impact of family planning and abortion … that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Births increased 1% and contraceptive purchases rose 8% in …
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