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The ART of life : IVF or child adoption?
Gumus, Gulcin; Lee, Jungmin - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is responsive to changes in adoption markets. Controlling for state-specific fixed effects, the...
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The effect of joint custody on family outcomes
Halla, Martin - 2011 - Last update: 2011/04/19
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020
Myers, Caitlin K. - 2022
An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women's confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I...
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Did the US Infertility Health Insurance Mandates Affect the Timing of First Birth?
Ohinata, Asako - 2011
From 1977-2001, 15 US states mandated health insurance providers to offer coverage for infertility treatment. Although the majority of the past literature has studied impacts on older women who are likely to seek treatment, this paper proposes that the mandates may have had a wider impact on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177843
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … fertility rates. This implies that the well-documented cyclical nature of fertility rates is about access to liquidity. We also …
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How Costs Limit Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S : A Randomized Control Trial
Bailey, Martha J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner; Prettyman, Alexa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Affordable Care Act eliminated cost-sharing for contraception for Americans with health insurance, but substantial cost sharing remains for uninsured individuals who seek care through Title X--a national family planning program that provides patient-centered, subsidized contraception and...
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Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
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Maybe next month? : temperature shocks, climate change, and dynamic adjustments in birth rates
Barreca, Alan I.; Deschênes, Olivier; Guldi, Melanie - 2015
not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …
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The fertility effect of laws granting undocumented migrants access to driving licenses in the United States
Gunadi, Christian - 2022
licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal …
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Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022
19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …
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