More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly
half give birth. Why do these young people, who are hardly more than children themselves …

During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political
debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum …

Irregular use of the pill compromises the effectiveness of this highly reliable method. The
consistency of pill-taking has traditionally been estimated through women's own reports of …

We investigate the effect of abortion access on teen birthrates using county-level panel data.
Past research suggested that prohibiting abortion led to higher teen birthrates. Perhaps …

This paper uses data on abortion rates by state from 1974–1988 to estimate two-stage least
squares models with fixed state and year effects. Restrictions on Medicaid funding for …

The impact. of state abortion restrictions on access to abortion is becoming an increasingly
important policy issue as the number and types of restrictions that can be enforced in the …

CONTEXT: A woman's ability to obtain an abortion is affected both by the availability of a
provider and by accessrelated factors such as cost, convenience, gestational limits and the …

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the causes of the rapid decline in the infant
mortality rate in the United States in the period after 1963. The roles of four public policies …

This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the
likelihood of getting pregnant, having an abortion and bearing a child. We exploit a natural …

Hispanic women are 60 percent more likely than non-Hispanics to have an unintended
pregnancy that they terminate by abortion, but they are less likely than nonwhites to do so …