| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w5615 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 5615 |
| Roe v. Wade and American Fertility | |
| Phillip B. Levine; Douglas Staiger; Thomas J. Kane; David J. Zimmerman | |
| 发表日期 | 1996-06-01 |
| 出版年 | 1996 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We consider the effect of abortion legalization on births in the United States. A simple theoretical model demonstrates that the impact of abortion legalization on the birth rate is ambiguous, because both pregnancy and abortion decisions could be affected. We use variation in the timing of legalization across states in the early 1970's to estimate the effect of abortion on birth rates. Our findings indicate that states legalizing abortion experienced a 5% decline in births relative to other states. The decline among teens, women over 35, and nonwhite women was even greater: 13%, 8%, and 12% respectively. Out-of-wedlock births declined by twice as much as births in wedlock. If legalization in some states affected birth rates in neighboring states (through travel to obtain an abortion), comparing births between states will underestimate the actual reduction. Using more distant comparison states increases the estimated impact of abortion legalization on birth rates to about 8%. Applying this estimate to the current level of births, a complete recriminalization of abortion would result in 320,000 additional births per year. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w5615 |
| 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/563092 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Phillip B. Levine,Douglas Staiger,Thomas J. Kane,et al. Roe v. Wade and American Fertility. 1996. |
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