This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the … state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … consequences of abortion reform for white women do not appear to have changed schooling or labor market outcomes. In contrast …

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the … Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortion have this effect. We attempt to account for the potential … endogeneity of abortion laws by comparing the effects of liberal statutes to those of court injunctions ordering states to fund …

This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant …, having an abortion, and bearing a child. Aggregate, state-level data and microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of …

Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence …. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has … find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

performed in New York State from 1971-1975 to analyze the impact of legalized abortion in New York on abortion and birth rates … of non-residents. We estimate that abortion rates declined by 12.0 percent for every hundred miles a woman lived from New … York in the years before Roe. If Roe were overturned average travel distance to the nearest abortion provider would …

Ten years have passed since John Donohue and Steven Levitt initially proposed that legalized abortion played a major … of age-specific crime rates are inconsistent with a large cohort affect following the legalization of abortion …-specific arrest and homicide rates regressed on lagged abortion rates in the 1970s or indicators of abortion legalization in 1970 and …

doubled since 1988. Congress is currently considering legislation that would further limit access to abortion for minors who … the impact of such abortion restrictions, mainly due to methodological limitations caused by the inability to measure … that these limitations led researchers to overestimate the decline in minors' abortion rate, underestimate the increase in …

The association between legalized abortion and crime remains a contentious finding with major implications for social …-specific arrests and homicides on cohort-specific abortion rates. I find that the coefficient on the abortion rate in a regression of … convincing test of abortion and crime should be based on an exogenous change in abortion that had a demonstrable effect on …

The inverse relationship between abortion and crime has spurred new research and much controversy. If the relationship … is causal, then polices that increased abortion have generated enormous external benefits from reduced crime. In previous … analyses intended to address criticisms of my earlier work. First, I examine closely the effects of changes in abortion rates …

abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor …