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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women

Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

administrative data to examine how reductions in access to reproductive health care during 2020 affected contraceptive efficacy among …

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Family Planning, Now and Later : Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up

Bau, Natalie; Henning, David J.; Low, Corinne; Millett … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …-up remains puzzlingly low, even among educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to hormonal contraceptive … trial with female undergraduates at the flagship university in Zambia to test two interventions to increase contraceptive …

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Intergenerational Mobility Begins Before Birth

Seshadri, Ananth; Zhou, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Nearly 40% of births in the United States are unintended, and this phenomenon is disproportionately common among Black Americans and women with lower education. Given that being born to unprepared parents significantly affects children's outcomes, could family planning access affect...

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The Road Not Taken : How Driving Distance and Appointment Availability Shape the Effects of Abortion Bans

Myers, Caitlin K.; Dench, Daniel; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use difference-in-differences research designs to estimate the effects of abortion bans on births at the county level, leveraging data on changes in driving distance and appointment availability at the nearest facility where abortion remains legal. We find that bans alone increase births, but...

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The Fertility Consequences of Air Pollution in China

Gao, Xuwen; Song, Ran; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We incorporate pollution exposure into Becker's "Quantity-Quality" (Q-Q) model of fertility and quantify how air pollution distorts individuals' fertility behaviors in China. We document a robust pattern in which increased pollution over time negatively affects the fertility of ethnic Han...

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The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility : Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Dupas, Pascaline; Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We conducted a randomized trial among 14,545 households in rural Burkina Faso to test the oft-cited hypothesis that limited access to contraception is an important driver of high fertility rates in West Africa. We do not find support for this hypothesis. Women who were given free access to...

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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below...

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Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers : Experimental Evidence From Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan

Wagner, Zachary; Moucheraud, Corrina; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate disparities. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention to reduce family planning provider bias towards young women in 227 clinics in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and...

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Intrahousehold Welfare : Theory and Application to Japanese Data

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, Costas; Okuyama, Yoko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this paper we develop a novel approach to measuring individual welfare within households, recognizing that individuals may have both different preferences (particularly regarding public consumption) and differential access to resources. We construct a money metric measure of welfare that...

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Fertility and Savings : The Effect of China's Two-Child Policy on Household Savings

Baker, Scott; Benmelech, Efraim; Yang, Zhishu; Zhang, Qi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it difficult to assess the relative importance of each...

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