I specify a dynamic life-cycle model of abortion, contraceptive use, schooling, and labor supply decisions of US women …. I structurally estimate the model, allowing for abortion misreporting, using data from the NLSY97, aggregate abortion … simulate a series of policies and find that eliminating access to abortion services increases contraceptive use but decreases …

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 …

I combine fertility histories from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey with a census of newly introduced legal … abortion centers to estimate the impact of reducing the cost of abortion on pregnancy outcomes, gender, and neonatal health …. Contrary to previous studies, I identify the within-mother, behavioral response to improved access to abortion by comparing …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the sustained decline in mortality and subsequently fertility, it has major … the transition for women’s status in both high and low fertility populations by presenting evidence that women gain from …