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 …

I compile and disseminate novel panel data sets measuring county-level travel distances to abortion facilities and … resident abortion rates. Using these data and exploiting temporal and spatial variation in distances, I implement difference …-in-difference research designs measuring the causal effects of distance to the nearest abortion facility. The results indicate large and non …