| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w4432 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 4432 |
| Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Pregnancy Resolutions and Birth Weight | |
| Janet Currie; Lucia Nixon; Nancy Cole | |
| 发表日期 | 1993-08-01 |
| 出版年 | 1993 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the number of unhealthy fetuses that are carried to term. In this paper we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding of abortion have this effect. We attempt to account for the potential endogeneity of abortion laws by comparing the effects of liberal statutes to those of court injunctions ordering states to fund abortion. Our results suggest that restrictions do increase the probability that African-American and low income women carry a pregnancy to term, but that they have no direct effect on birth weight. In contrast, community-level measures of the availability of abortion, contraception, and prenatal care do affect birth weight among African-Americans but not among whites. |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w4432 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/561804 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Janet Currie,Lucia Nixon,Nancy Cole. Restrictions on Medicaid Funding of Abortion: Effects on Pregnancy Resolutions and Birth Weight. 1993. |
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