abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …

abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …

the practice of sex‐selective abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of …

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

We examine the long-term consequences of restricted access to abortion following a change in the Hungarian abortion law …, despite the severe restriction, still made abortion permissible for selected groups of women. We control for the compositional … to the law change, and draw causal inferences. We find that restricted access to abortion had, on average, a negative …

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …

relationship between abortion and infant homicide. We test the hypothesis that abortion removes out of the population those infants … between infant homicide and the abortion rate: a one standard deviation increase in the abortion rate reduces the expected … number of infant homicides by approximately 40 percent. Medicaid funding of abortion reduces the number of infant homicides …

-selective abortions are more likely to occur among families with firstborn girls, we study whether the ban on sex-selective abortion …