This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess … availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion. Our results show that the legalization of abortion … ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted. Interestingly, we find that while abortion …

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion … instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion … of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich …

-form model, we find abortion and neonatal intensive care availability to be the most important determinants of overall neonatal …, abortion availability has twice the impact of neonatal inexpensive care. Moreover, our results suggest that neonatal mortality …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …

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 …

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

The introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970s led to dramatic changes in fertility behavior. Some research … controversial. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which abortion access affects cohort …-run impact on cohort characteristics. Our results provide convincing evidence that abortion legalization altered young adult …

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 … fell 20.5% and births rose 2.6% in counties that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Changes in the family …