reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the …

This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights …. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right … in a model predicting that fathers with paternalistic preferences adopt a more polarised political position on abortion …

services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in … access to abortion and family planning services, which we leverage to understand the impact of family planning and abortion … that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 miles. Births increased 1% and contraceptive purchases rose 8% in …

Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether … abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate … that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths …

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 …