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Reproductive Technology and the Child Care Sector : How Access to Oral Contraception and Abortion Shaped Workforce Composition and Quality

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

between home production and market work. This paper examines whether the expansion of oral contraceptives and abortion access … highly-educated workers. This shift led to a decline in average education levels and wages within the child care workforce …. Furthermore, access to the pill and abortion influenced child care employment differently across settings, with center …

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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families

Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...

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Dealing with Imperfect Randomization : Inference for the HighScope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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From Access to Wellness : Early Life Exposure to Abortion Legalization and the Next Generation's Health

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Slusky, David; Vu, Hoa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the multigenerational impacts of legalized abortion in the United States by analyzing how early …, we link maternal early-life exposure to legal abortion with improved birth outcomes in the subsequent generation …

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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 … measurable barriers. However, the effects grow substantially with travel burdens. In counties where the nearest abortion facility …

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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation

Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic … outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed …. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we empirically demonstrate these points. Despite a more than 5 percent increase in …

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How Costs Limit Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S : A Randomized Control Trial

Bailey, Martha J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner; Prettyman, Alexa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...

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Proximity to Abortion Services and Child Maltreatment

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the accessibility of abortion services and …) and the Myers abortion facility database from 2011 to 2018. The analysis reveals that a rise in travel distance to the … nearest abortion facility significantly increases the incidence of child maltreatment. Specifically, we find that a 100-mile …

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Abortion Restrictions and Intimate Partner Violence in the Dobbs Era

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2025

has highlighted the far-reaching impact of abortion restrictions for women and families, which extend beyond their … proximate effects on abortions, births, and fertility. We provide some of the first causal evidence on how abortion restrictions … form of violence experienced by women, and changes in access to abortion may generate unintended effects on various inputs …

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Choosing Wisely : Evaluating Latent Factor Models in the Presence of a Contaminated Instrumental Variable with Varying Strength

Banerjee, Souvik; Basu, Anirban; Das, Shubham - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Causal inference methods are widely used in empirical research; however, there is a paucity of evidence on the properties of shared latent factor estimators in the presence of contaminated instrumental variable (IV) when a strong IV may not be available. We present a theoretical formulation to...

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