This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the United … States. Specifically, I exploit state and time variation in the implementation of the first targeted regulation of abortion … the abortion rate of approximately 5% the year the first law is implemented, and an average reduction of 11-14% in …

Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling … before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least … two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas increased the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours …

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 …

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. …

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 …

largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …

largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …

incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. -- sex selection ; abortion ; sex ratio ; son preference ; prenatal …