Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since
the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific …

Although abortion in Italy is free of charge and legal in a broad set of circumstances, 71% of
gynecologists are registered as conscientious objectors, ie they are exempted from …

Beyond a handful of studies examining early-adopting states in the early 1990s, little is
known about the causal effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion. In this study we …

Much of the academic literature that analyzes US state-level restrictions on abortion focuses
on parental involvement laws and the extent to which abortion is publicly funded through …

There are wide racial disparities in virtually every sphere of economic life. African American
workers earn less than whites. They are more likely to be denied loans than whites. Minority …

An unintended birth at an early age has the potential to interrupt a woman's education, with
implications for her future career and earnings. This paper investigates the impact of …

Objective The objective was to develop and test the feasibility of a methodology to recruit
and retain individuals in the United States (US) who were considering abortion at the point …

Background Previous studies identify consistent patterns of economically disadvantaged
backgrounds, educational deficits, and relatively weak labor market outcomes of teen …

Extending work of Cook et al.(1999, 1996), this paper examines abortion funding cutoffs for
poor women in North Carolina, a unique setting allowing for a strong quasi-experimental …

In this study, we model women's recourse to induced abortion as resulting from a process
that starts with sexual intercourse and contraceptive use (or nonuse), continues with the …