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-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as … abortion implies that birth rates may even rise for low-income women. These results also suggest that already economically …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a myriad of studies and proposals on how economic policy should respond to this colossal shock. But in this debate it is seldom recognized that the health shock is not entirely exogenous. Its magnitude and dynamics themselves depend on economic policies, and...
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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …
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This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages …
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Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive medical procedures since Catholic hospitals have strict prohibitions on contraception. Using changes in ownership of hospitals, we find that Catholic hospitals reduce the per bed...
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-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a modest share of fertility decline in real-world settings (explaining 4-20% of fertility decline …
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on a small scale, could alter incentives surrounding fertility. Using synthetic control and difference …-in-differences models to account for confounding factors and unobserved heterogeneity, we model the effect of income on fertility by … exploiting this income shock around 1982 using Natality files from Vital Statistics and abortion data from the Centers for …
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