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 …

services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in … access to abortion and family planning services, which we leverage to understand the impact of family planning and abortion … clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In response to these policies, abortions to Texas residents …

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 …

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 … experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

are in some instances different from the effects of abortion. We investigate the mechanisms by which the pill led to these … differential effects and find that access to the pill led to falls in short-term fertility rates for young women and led to … decreases in lifetime fertility at the intensive and extensive margins. The impacts of the pill on household characteristics are …

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion … instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion … of abortion services, an unusual and rapidly-implemented policy meeting these requirements. Using four waves of rich …

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 …

reduce cash assistance to welfare recipients who have additional births. We use birth and abortion records from 24 states to … estimate effects of family caps on birth and abortion rates. We use age, marital status and completed schooling to identify … affected by the family cap. In family cap states, birth rates fell more and abortion rates rose more among high-risk women with …

This paper considers the impact of changes in abortion and welfare policies along with economic conditions over the … 1985 to 1996 period at each stage of the fertility decision tree, including sexual activity, contraception, pregnancy …, abortion, and birth. Examining the impact of policy at each stage of the decision tree represents a useful approach because …

state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The …, black women who were exposed to abortion reforms experienced large reductions in teen fertility and teen out …This study uses the 1970 state abortion reforms to estimate the effect of teen and out-of-wedlock childbearing on the …