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 …

The introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970s led to dramatic changes in fertility behavior. Some research …-run impact on cohort characteristics. Our results provide convincing evidence that abortion legalization altered young adult … controversial. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which abortion access affects cohort …

Previous research has convincingly shown that abortion legalization in the early 1970s led to a significant drop in … impact of abortion legalization on both the number of children ever born as well as the distribution of number of children … ever born. Our results indicate that much of the reduction in fertility at the time abortion was legalized was permanent in …

evidence of a clear impact on fertility …

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …

The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the … endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition … rare (twins) and weak (gender composition) instrumental variables for fertility. This paper proposes a new "natural …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

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 …