| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21275 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21275 |
| How Much Can Expanding Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Reduce Teen Birth Rates? | |
| Jason M. Lindo; Analisa Packham | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-06-15 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite a near-continuous decline over the past 20 years, the teen birth rate in the United States continues to be higher than that of other developed countries. Given that over three- quarters of teen births are unintended at conception and that over a third of unplanned births are to women using contraception, many have advocated for promoting the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), which are more effective at preventing pregnancy than more commonly used contraceptives. In order to speak to the degree to which increasing access to LARCs can reduce teen birth rates, this paper analyzes the first large-scale policy intervention to promote and improve access to LARCs in the United States: Colorado’s Family Planning Initiative. We estimate its effects using a difference-in-differences approach, comparing the changes in teen birth rates in Colorado counties with Title X clinics (which received funding) to the changes observed in other US counties with Title X clinics. The results of this analysis indicate that the $23 million program reduced the teen birth rate by approximately 5% in the four years following its implementation, providing support for the notion that increasing access to LARCs is a mechanism through which policy can reduce teenage childbearing. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21275 |
| 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/578950 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jason M. Lindo,Analisa Packham. How Much Can Expanding Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Reduce Teen Birth Rates?. 2015. |
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