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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021
that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations (NGOs) if they offer abortion-related information or services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745410
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Power of the pill or power of abortion? Re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2012
largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283957
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Power of the pill or power of abortion? : re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control
Myers, Caitlin K. - 2012
largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550587
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322784
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Policy Perspectives : Understanding U.S. Births and Abortions with Google Trends
Scott, Brad - 2023
This study investigates the relationship between abstinence-only education and various reproductive health outcomes using descriptive statistics and Poisson regression models, while incorporating Google search data to capture the unknown factors associated with people's information-seeking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357842
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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
infants. Exposure to the beltway sniper attacks during pregnancy increased the likelihood of very low birthweight and very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421199
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Health care centralization : the health impacts of obstetric unit closures in the US
Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - 2023
Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229781
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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020
Myers, Caitlin K. - 2022
legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166792
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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Does Paid Sick Leave Facilitate Reproductive Choice?
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
planning services such as contraception, in-vitro fertilization, or abortion services. Use of these services, in turn, can … increased use of contraception but not changes in abortion services. We offer suggestive evidence of heterogeneity in birth rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421226