pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to … values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth … that Muslims are the youngest when becoming pregnant for the first time. Protestants delay first pregnancy, but once being …

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 …

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 …

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 …

caused by work in the third trimester of pregnancy. We find no evidence for significant effects of this extension on children …. We conclude that, for workers without problems in pregnancy, mandatory maternity leave should not start prior to the 35th …