This article provides a review of the economics of abortion policy. In particular, it focuses on the determinants of … abortion reform, as well as the effects of abortion reform on individual circumstances. The economic literature on abortion … policy is broad, studying abortion reforms that have occurred over the past two centuries, although there is a concentration …

We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access …

marriage and motherhood. -- abortion ; contraception ; fertility ; marriage … 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 …

and abortion clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In response to these policies, abortions to … services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation … over time in access to abortion and family planning services, which we leverage to understand the impact of family planning …

contraceptive services by minors have greater pill use, but the impact of the legal framework surrounding abortion restrictions has … their contraceptive decisions, at least relative to abortion legislation. If individuals are forward thinking enough such …Following the legalization of abortion in the United States, scholars have studied its impact on a wide variety of …

control trial (RCT) to examine how cost-sharing at Title X providers affects the choice of contraceptive method. The study … randomizes vouchers that cover any contraceptive method up to the cost of 50% or 100% of a name-brand intra-uterine device (IUD …

transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on … fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data … for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births …

Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These … often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence … affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks …

planning services and for abortion, despite growing efforts to restrict reproductive rights and services and documented …-only public funding for family planning and abortion services (years available: 1980, 1987, 1994, 2001, 2006, and 2010) and … capita spending (per woman, age 15–44). State-level covariates comprised: Title X and Medicaid per capita funding, fertility …