performed in New York State from 1971-1975 to analyze the impact of legalized abortion in New York on abortion and birth rates … of non-residents. We estimate that abortion rates declined by 12.0 percent for every hundred miles a woman lived from New … York in the years before Roe. If Roe were overturned average travel distance to the nearest abortion provider would …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …

We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document … dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an abortion without involving a parent or judge … present, the average distance to a confidential abortion has increased from 55 to 454 miles. Using both double and triple …

(religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl … abortion. We find no evidence of greater postnatal neglect of girls once more girls are born. Our findings show that politician … preferences over abortion influence abortion-related outcomes, most likely through greater enforcement of laws against sex …

This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of … abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual circumstances. The economic literature on abortion … policy is broad, studying abortion reforms that have occurred over the past two centuries, although there is a concentration …

transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births …