In this paper author reveals some evidence on pattern of contraception and fertility in Russia. Contrary to common … sense it turns out that women that follow very cautios contraceptive strategy make abortion very rarely. Author offers …

Total fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly double that of any other region in the world. Evidence is mixed … on whether providing contraceptives has an impact on fertility. I exploit exogenous, intermittent reductions in … contraceptive supply in Ghana, resulting from cuts in U.S. funding, to examine impacts on pregnancy, abortion, and births. Women are …

There is evidence in the economic literature that restrictions on Medicaid funding for abortion reduces the demand for … abortion. The unresolved question is whether such restrictions also increase safe sex (that is, pregnancy avoidance) behavior … Medicaid funding for abortion fail to promote safe sex behavior among women. …

criminal activity as adults. Therefore, unmarried fertility may be positively associated with future crime. On the other hand …, in an environment in which social stigma attached to non-marital fertility is high, many low match quality parents will … married. We explore these effects empirically, finding that over the long run, unmarried fertility is positively associated …

hospital care. We used the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA), which finds increasing application in many spheres of …

Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …