The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

values transmit into abortion laws. This fertility behaviour determines the time when young women have their first live birth … pregnant, Protestants are more likely to carry their first pregnancy to term rather than having an abortion. With respect to …

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 …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …

(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 …