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Cooling off or burdened? : the effects of mandatory waiting periods on abortions and births

Myers, Caitlin K. - 2021

waiting periods for abortions, distinguishing between "one- trip" waiting periods that allow counseling and information to be …-trip waiting periods do not have substantial effects on abortions or births. Two-trip waiting periods are estimated to reduce … abortions and delay those that still occur, increasing second trimester abortions by 19.1%, reducing resident abortion rates by …

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Measuring the burden: the effect of travel distance on abortions and births

Myers, Caitlin K. - 2021

burdensome for women seeking abortions - is estimated to prevent 20.5% of women seeking an abortion from reaching a provider, and …

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Legal status and voluntary abortions by immigrants

Pieroni, Luca; Rosselló Roig, Melcior; Salmasi, Luca; … - 2023

We estimate the effect of granting legal status to immigrant women on voluntary abortions. We exploit the 2007 EU … explanations. The drop in abortions points to legal status as a way to empower immigrant women. …

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Secondary school enrolment and teenage childbearing : evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - 2019

This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...

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Does electrification spur the fertility transition? : evidence from Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - 2014

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...

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Female education and its impact on fertility : the relationship is more complex than one may think

Jungho Kim - 2016

The negative correlation between women's education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however, its interpretation is unclear. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women's health and their physical capacity to give birth, children's health,...

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The power of the government : China's family planning leading group and the fertility decline since 1970

Chen, Yi; Huang, Yingfei - 2018 - Current Draft: April 2018

China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its fertility appears to have declined even faster in the early 1970s than it did after 1979. In this study, we highlight the importance of the Family Planning Leading Group in understanding the fertility decline since the...

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers...

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The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services : evidence from Texas

Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - 2017

clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In-state abortions fell 20% and births rose 3% in counties …

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