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The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children’s nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...
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abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …
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abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …
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the practice of sex‐selective abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of …
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Since the onset of HIV/AIDS awareness in the early 1980s, much attention has centered around the substantial negative effects of the disease throughout the world. This paper provides evidence of a secondary effect the disease has had on sexual behavior in the United States. Using a...
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This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …
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that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations (NGOs) if they offer abortion-related information or services …
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collected street addresses of abortion clinics and linked them to SafeGraph's data on counts of visitors. We found a 32 percent …
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We examine the long-term consequences of restricted access to abortion following a change in the Hungarian abortion law …, despite the severe restriction, still made abortion permissible for selected groups of women. We control for the compositional … to the law change, and draw causal inferences. We find that restricted access to abortion had, on average, a negative …
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We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …
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