are in some instances different from the effects of abortion. We investigate the mechanisms by which the pill led to these … than abortion, we find suggestive results that availability of the pill lowered abortions among young women …

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

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we estimate the impacts of abortion clinic closures on access to clinics in terms of distance and … congestion, abortion rates, and birth rates. Legislation regulating abortion providers enacted in Wisconsin in 2011 …-2013 ultimately led to the closure of two of five abortion clinics in Wisconsin, increasing the average distance to the nearest clinic …

effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion. In this study we evaluate the effects of a Tennessee law enacted in 2015 … that requires women to make an additional trip to abortion providers for state-directed counseling at least 48 hours before … they can obtain an abortion. Our difference-in-differences and synthetic-control estimates indicate that the introduction …

Donohue and Levitt (2001) presented evidence that the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s played an important … decades: “When a steady state is reached roughly twenty years from now, the impact of abortion will be roughly twice as great … as the impact felt so far. Our results suggest that all else equal, legalized abortion will account for persistent …

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 …

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 …