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

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 …

abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor …We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …

legalized abortion. With monthly data on the number of births to white and black adolescents from January, 1963 to December … liberalization of the New York State abortion law in 1970. We found the level of births to black adolescents living in New York City … births between 1970 and 1971 were applied to the forecasted number of monthly births in 1988 and 1989. If legal abortion had …

state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The …, black women who were exposed to abortion reforms experienced large reductions in teen fertility and teen out …This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the …

ever born. Our results indicate that much of the reduction in fertility at the time abortion was legalized was permanent in …Previous research has convincingly shown that abortion legalization in the early 1970s led to a significant drop in … fertility at that time. But this decline may have either represented a delay in births from a point where they were have …

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 the impact of changes in abortion and welfare policies along with economic conditions over the … 1985 to 1996 period at each stage of the fertility decision tree, including sexual activity, contraception, pregnancy …, abortion, and birth. Examining the impact of policy at each stage of the decision tree represents a useful approach because …

reduce cash assistance to welfare recipients who have additional births. We use birth and abortion records from 24 states to … estimate effects of family caps on birth and abortion rates. We use age, marital status and completed schooling to identify … affected by the family cap. In family cap states, birth rates fell more and abortion rates rose more among high-risk women with …

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 …