We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access …

Abortion and contraception have become the two most highly contested health care services in the ongoing debate over … abortion wars that have pervaded national politics since the 1970s. That explanation is correct, but incomplete. The abortion … considers the effects of the ACA’s exclusion of abortion and inclusion of contraception on the understanding of women’s health …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …

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 …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …

$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 …