Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to use contraception and the occurrence of intimate...

We test whether the availability of the emergency contraceptive (“morning after”) pill in the absence of legalised abortion can have effects similar to those of other large-scale contraceptive reforms. To do so we examine a quasi-experimental policy reform occurring in Chile in 2008. Using...