The Effect of Anti-Abortion Legislation on Nineteenth Century Fertility-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Effect of Anti-Abortion Legislation on Nineteenth Century Fertility

Published:2014-04-02 Issue:3 Volume:51 Page:939-948
ISSN:0070-3370
Container-title:Demography
language:en
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Author:

Lahey Joanna N.¹²

Affiliation:

1. Bush School, Texas A&M University, Mailstop 4220, College Station, TX 77845, USA

2. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

Abstract Using nineteenth century legal information combined with census information, I examine the effect of state laws that restricted American women’s access to abortion on the ratio of children to women. I estimate an increase in the birthrate of 4 % to 12 % when abortion is restricted. In the absence of anti-abortion laws, fertility would have been 5 % to 12 % lower in the early twentieth century.

Publisher

Duke University Press

Subject

Demography

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13524-014-0293-x.pdf

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