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 …

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 …

contraceptive use and abortion, as captured by internet search and tweeting behavior …. The reality TV show follows the lives of pregnant teenagers during the final months of their pregnancy and early months of … motherhood. We match Vital Statistics birth data to Nielson television ratings data to investigate whether exposure to the show …

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

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 …

When women of childbearing age gain health insurance, we expect their birth outcomes to improve, but comparing births … affect who gives birth, through reduced costs of contraception. Health insurance could also directly improve maternal and … child health among those who give birth, through additional prenatal resources. We address this question using the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

,000 births. This suggests significant improvements in infant mortality rates can be achieved through increased access to …