This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the … state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … consequences of abortion reform for white women do not appear to have changed schooling or labor market outcomes. In contrast …

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 …

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 …

Restrictions on abortion are pervasive, yet relatively little is known about the financial and economic impact of being … denied an abortion on pregnant women who seek one. This paper evaluates the economic consequences of being denied an abortion … women receiving or being denied a wanted abortion in the United States. Some women had pregnancies close to the facility …

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 …

The 1966 abolition and 1989 legalization of abortion in Romania immediately doubled and decreased by about a third the … number of births per month, respectively. To isolate the link between abortion access and crime while abstracting from cohort … and general equilibrium effects, we compare birth month cohorts on either side of the abortion regime. For both the …

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. Based on our difference-in-differences approach, estimates indicate that the introduction of …

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 …

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