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Measuring the burden: the effect of travel distance on abortions and births

Myers, Caitlin K. - 2021

I compile and disseminate novel panel data sets measuring county-level travel distances to abortion facilities and … resident abortion rates. Using these data and exploiting temporal and spatial variation in distances, I implement difference …-in-difference research designs measuring the causal effects of distance to the nearest abortion facility. The results indicate large and non …

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To Pill or Not to Pill? Access to Emergency Contraception and Contraceptive Behaviour

Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Pino, Francisco J. - 2019

We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level as a consequence of legal and judicial decisions in the late 2000s. We find...

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To pill or not to pill? : access to emergency contraception and contraceptive behaviour

Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Pino, Francesco J. - 2019

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

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Teenage pregnancies and birth in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

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Precautionary fertility : conceptions, births, and abortions around employment shocks

Bárdits, Anna; Adamecz, Anna; Bisztray, Márta; Weber, … - 2023

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm-level mass layoff and closure events to individual-level records on births and abortions, we show that the main response happens in anticipation of the shock. Responses differ by...

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Temperature and sex ratios at birth

Ghany, Jasmin Abdel; Wilde, Joshua; Dimitrova, Anna; … - 2024

Sex ratios at birth shape populations and are linked to maternal health and gender discrimination. We estimate the effect of prenatal temperature exposure on birth sex by linking data on 5 million births in 33 sub-Saharan African countries and India with high-resolution temperature data. We find...

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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Nigeria

Cortez, Rafael; Saadat, Seemeen; Marinda, Edmore; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Nigeria is the most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa. It also has a very young population. The majority of the population is below the age of 25 years, with 22 percent of the country?s population between the ages of 10-19 years. Data on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes in...

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