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 …

transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births … of 2.3 percent relative to states where abortion was not restricted. …

estimate event study models using women with a completed pregnancy as a control group. A first miscarriage increases women …

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …

: medication abortion and contraceptives. Notwithstanding the states' long-standing role in regulating health care and the practice …