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 …

We document the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access, abortions, and births using variation generated … abortion 10%. We also demonstrate the importance of congestion with a proxy capturing effects of closures which have little … abortion …

collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph’s data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …