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administrative data to examine how reductions in access to reproductive health care during 2020 affected contraceptive efficacy among …
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unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …
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Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …
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country using detailed data on women's subjective probabilistic beliefs about contraception and contraceptive attributes … would only have modest effects on contraceptive use. Alternatively, increasing partners' approval of methods, aligning … partners' fertility preferences with women's, and correcting women's expectations about pregnancy risk absent contraception …
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The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … this transition. Almost fifty years after the contraceptive pill appeared on the U.S. market, this analysis provides new … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …
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behavior and contraceptive use. Evidence from this analysis suggests that the reduction in fertility associated with raising …
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countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … paper provides new evidence on the role of contraceptive supply by exploiting the surprisingly haphazard expansion of one of … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia's fertility decline, it appears to have …
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clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In response to these policies, abortions to Texas residents …
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Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have experienced dramatic changes in the ease and convenience of timing and limiting childbearing, ranging from the introduction of the birth control pill and the legalization of...
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Despite a near-continuous decline over the past 20 years, the teen birth rate in the United States continues to be higher than that of other developed countries. Given that over three- quarters of teen births are unintended at conception and that over a third of unplanned births are to women...
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