-run impact on cohort characteristics. Our results provide convincing evidence that abortion legalization altered young adult …The introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970s led to dramatic changes in fertility behavior. Some research … controversial. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which abortion access affects cohort …

-run impact on cohort characteristics. Our results provide convincing evidence that abortion legalization altered young adult …The introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970s led to dramatic changes in fertility behavior. Some research … controversial. In this paper, we provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms through which abortion access affects cohort …

Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These … often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence … abortion access, we find that impacts on births are large and robust for Black women. Black teen births in states that …

causal effect of abortion legalization on adolescent fertility in Uruguay, using official data on legal abortions provided … has the highest rate of unintended pregnancy of any world region, and nearly half of such pregnancies end in abortion …. However, fewer than 18% of the region’s women live in countries where abortion is broadly legal. This paper estimates the …