Most industrialized countries have increased access to abortion over the past 30 years. Economic theory predicts that … abortion laws affect sexual behavior since they change the marginal cost of having risky sex. We use gonorrhea incidence as a … 1980-2000, we estimate the impact of abortion law reform on risky sex. Compared to the most restrictive legislation that …

Background: While induced abortion is considered to be illegal and socially unacceptable in Nigeria, it is still … practiced by many women in the country. Poor family planning and unsafe abortion practices have daunting effects on maternal … major factor in this trend is the high incidence of abortion in the country. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to …

problems. Our findings imply that mental health concerns cannot be used to justify restrictive abortion policies. Moreover …

problems. Our findings imply that mental health concerns cannot be used to justify restrictive abortion policies. Moreover …

This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant …, having an abortion, and bearing a child. Aggregate, state-level data and microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of …

Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in … 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives … for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion …