Proponents of laws requiring a waiting period before a woman can receive an abortion argue that these cooling off …

Laws requiring minors to seek parental consent or to notify a parent prior to obtaining an abortion raise the cost of …

relationship between abortion and infant homicide. We test the hypothesis that abortion removes out of the population those infants … between infant homicide and the abortion rate: a one standard deviation increase in the abortion rate reduces the expected … number of infant homicides by approximately 40 percent. Medicaid funding of abortion reduces the number of infant homicides …

Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in … 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives … for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion …

-selective abortions are more likely to occur among families with firstborn girls, we study whether the ban on sex-selective abortion …

performed by Mexico City's public abortion program and analyze effects on desired fertility. Using difference …

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 …

Most industrialized countries have increased access to abortion over the past 30 years. Economic theory predicts that … abortion laws affect sexual behavior since they change the marginal cost of having risky sex. We use gonorrhea incidence as a … 1980-2000, we estimate the impact of abortion law reform on risky sex. Compared to the most restrictive legislation that …