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 …

abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using …

abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using …

that women’s reproductive rights fall. It is pertinently a delicate aspect of our civilization which has been given a deaf … millions of women to die. It was only in the latter half of 20th century that authorities began recognizing the need to codify … world. This article specifically aligns itself for the inclusion of reproductive rights of women in municipal legislations …

fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the … investigate whether the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers affects fertility in post-conflict settings. We study the case … with geocoded information on the distance to United Nations bases. We find that women who live in the proximity of …