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We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of administrative datasets on health outcomes and pharmaceutical use, and using difference-in-difference and...
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incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. …
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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 …
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Following the June 24, 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling, which overturned the federal right to abortion … female-dominated jobs in states with "trigger" laws that outlawed abortion, (ii) satisfaction with management fell amongst …
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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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exploit state-by-cohort variation in ultrasound use in India as a unique quasi-experiment. We find that sex-selective abortion …-selection in India. -- ultrasound ; sex-selective abortion ; India …
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incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. -- sex selection ; abortion ; sex ratio ; son preference ; prenatal …
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This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
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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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