Our purpose in this paper is to address the impact of abortion legalization in the United States on women's fertility behavior. First, we present a model indicating it is quite possible that the effects of abortion legalization are different than an extrapolation of the effects of relatively...

What are commonly known as "demographic characteristics" include a person's sex, ethnic or hacial heritage, family ties, and so on. Some of these, like martial status, can reglect a person's choices or efforts; others, like age and sex cannot. Ethnic background, or classification by race, might...