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Joyce, Theodore J.; Tan, Ruoding; Zhang, Yuxiu - In: Journal of health economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 804-815

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Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortions : India's Experience Over Four Decades

Pörtner, Claus C. - 2020

Over the past four decades, the Hindu women in India most likely to use sex-selective abortions—well-educated women with no sons—had the most substantial lengthening of birth intervals and the most biased sex ratios. As a result, we now see cases that reverse the traditional spacing pattern,...

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Sex Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing

Pörtner, Claus C. - 2016

-selective abortions affect both the likelihood of a son and spacing between births. Using India’s National Family and Health Surveys, I …

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Abortion during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Racial Disparities and Barriers to Care in the U.S

Wolfe, Taida; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2022

individuals navigating an unfamiliar health and economic environment. COVID-19’s introduction into a landscape of abortion … Hispanic abortion seekers. Relaxing existing restrictions on medication abortions and telemedicine delivery models may be one …

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The impact of legal abortion on maternal mortality

Farin, Sherajum Monira; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Pesko, … - 2022

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 …

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