abortion implies that birth rates may even rise for low-income women. These results also suggest that already economically …Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID …-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as …

clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In response to these policies, abortions to Texas residents … fell 20.5% and births rose 2.6% in counties that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Changes in the family … within 25 miles. Meanwhile, responses of retail purchases of condoms and emergency contraceptives to both abortion and family …

effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …

Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the … pregnancy to term, but that they have no direct effect on birth weight. In contrast, community-level measures of the … availability of abortion, contraception, and prenatal care do affect birth weight among African-Americans but not among whites …

with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again … birth order and ideal family size. Our results suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess …

thus associated with retiming of births, changes in the characteristics of potential mothers, changes in which women become … children whose mothers were married, college-educated, and had professional occupations. The pill's effects on the average … mother are different from the pill's effects on the average woman, and the effects of the pill on maternal characteristics …

long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), which are more effective at preventing pregnancy than more commonly used … contraceptives. In order to speak to the degree to which increasing access to LARCs can reduce teen birth rates, this paper analyzes …Despite a near-continuous decline over the past 20 years, the teen birth rate in the United States continues to be …

the value of birth control purchased, a 328-day (226%) increase in the period covered by contraceptives purchased, and a … control trial (RCT) to examine how cost-sharing at Title X providers affects the choice of contraceptive method. The study … randomizes vouchers that cover any contraceptive method up to the cost of 50% or 100% of a name-brand intra-uterine device (IUD …