| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30248 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30248 |
| Another Day, Another Visit: Impact of Arkansas's Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups | |
| Onur Altindağ; Theodore J. Joyce | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-07-18 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas increased the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours and more significantly, required that women receive the counseling in person. We use a regression discontinuity design to analyze the immediate effect of Arkansas’s 2015 mandatory waiting period (MWP) law on abortion rates. We use de-identified, individual-level data from the Arkansas Department of Health (DOH) on all abortions performed in Arkansas from 2000 to 2020. Abortion rates fell 17 percent among all women, but 22 percent among white non-Hispanics and 14 percent among black non-Hispanics immediately after the law went into effect. We show that the law decreased abortion rates the most among unmarried adults with children. Abortion is now illegal in Arkansas. Given the decline in abortion rates associated the MWP’s two-visit requirement, abortion rates will likely fall further as travel distance to the nearest legal provider increases. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30248 |
| 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/587920 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Onur Altindağ,Theodore J. Joyce. Another Day, Another Visit: Impact of Arkansas's Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups. 2022. |
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| w30248.pdf（9518KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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