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decisions and contraceptive choices of women. I develop a discrete choice dynamic structural model, where each married woman in … every period makes joint choices regarding the method of contraceptive used and the sector of employment in which to work in … woman can only imperfectly control her fertility. Dynamics in the model are captured by several forms of state and duration …
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contraceptive information and services have been incorporated into the domestic legislation and policy documents of several …
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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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I specify a dynamic life-cycle model of abortion, contraceptive use, schooling, and labor supply decisions of US women … simulate a series of policies and find that eliminating access to abortion services increases contraceptive use but decreases … women's schooling and lifetime earnings. I also find that providing free contraception would increase contraceptive use and …
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Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have experienced dramatic changes in the ease and convenience of timing and limiting childbearing, ranging from the introduction of the birth control pill and the legalization of...
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We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile …, pre-coital contraception, and a decrease of more traditional contraceptive methods. This effect is concentrated among … with low starting levels of contraceptive use, and a significant potential for policies to increase adoption of regular …
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administrative data to examine how reductions in access to reproductive health care during 2020 affected contraceptive efficacy among …
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The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … pill in this transition. Almost fifty years after the contraceptive pill appeared on the U.S. market, this analysis … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …
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