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 …

fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …

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

by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in … introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and … female students working with male advisors when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white and black …

abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor …We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …

ever born. Our results indicate that much of the reduction in fertility at the time abortion was legalized was permanent in …Previous research has convincingly shown that abortion legalization in the early 1970s led to a significant drop in … fertility at that time. But this decline may have either represented a delay in births from a point where they were have …