Objective: We studied whether increased EC availability for women over age 18 was associated with a higher probability of risky sexual practices. Data: 34,030 individual/year observations on 3,786 women aged 18 and older were extracted from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 from...

One of the more contentious policy changes in the past decade in the United States involves the decisions by several state legislatures and the FDA to permit sales of emergency contraception on a non-prescription basis. We took advantage of a set of natural experiments to estimate the impact of...

Objective: We studied whether increased EC availability for women over age 18 was associated with a higher probability of risky sexual practices. Data Sources: 34,030 individual/year observations on 3,786 women aged 18 and older were extracted from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997...

Two types of sex education are generally offered in the United States: abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education. There is no clear scientific consensus over which approach minimizes the risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases for teens. While there have been many...