This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of … abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual circumstances. The economic literature on abortion … policy is broad, studying abortion reforms that have occurred over the past two centuries, although there is a concentration …

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …

Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates … coexist with low contraceptive use alongside adverse perinatal outcomes. Using a combination of ethnographic, ecological, and …

$4.3 million per year. These results suggest that giving lower-income women the means to control their fertility has the …

This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates … variation in contraceptive access to demonstrate that it reduced the rates of both extremely preterm births and infant mortality …

deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This suggests that expanding contraceptive access could help close the infant …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …