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Article: The unintended: negative outcomes over the life cycle
Title | The unintended: negative outcomes over the life cycle |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Abortion legalization Fertility Investment in children Unintended pregnancies |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Journal of Population Economics, 2015, v. 28, n. 2, p. 479-508 How to Cite? |
Abstract | We quantify the impact of abortion legalization on the incidence of unintended births. While underlying much of the literature on abortion legalization, this effect had only been approximated by previous work. We find a strong decline in the prevalence of unintended births. Moreover, we find that this decline is mainly driven by “pro-choice” women. We then propose an empirical strategy to recover the effect of being “unintended” on life cycle outcomes. We use the differential timing of abortion legalization across states interacted with the mother’s religion (which facilitates or hinders legal abortion take up) to instrument for endogenous pregnancy intention. We find that being unintended causes negative outcomes (higher crime, lower schooling, lower earnings) over the life cycle. Our paper provides an initial step towards quantifying this key mechanism behind many of the well-documented long-term effects associated with changes in reproductive health policy. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/346598 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.688 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lin, Wanchuan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pantano, Juan | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-17T04:11:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-17T04:11:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Population Economics, 2015, v. 28, n. 2, p. 479-508 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0933-1433 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/346598 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We quantify the impact of abortion legalization on the incidence of unintended births. While underlying much of the literature on abortion legalization, this effect had only been approximated by previous work. We find a strong decline in the prevalence of unintended births. Moreover, we find that this decline is mainly driven by “pro-choice” women. We then propose an empirical strategy to recover the effect of being “unintended” on life cycle outcomes. We use the differential timing of abortion legalization across states interacted with the mother’s religion (which facilitates or hinders legal abortion take up) to instrument for endogenous pregnancy intention. We find that being unintended causes negative outcomes (higher crime, lower schooling, lower earnings) over the life cycle. Our paper provides an initial step towards quantifying this key mechanism behind many of the well-documented long-term effects associated with changes in reproductive health policy. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Population Economics | - |
dc.subject | Abortion legalization | - |
dc.subject | Fertility | - |
dc.subject | Investment in children | - |
dc.subject | Unintended pregnancies | - |
dc.title | The unintended: negative outcomes over the life cycle | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00148-014-0530-z | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84921921071 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 28 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 479 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 508 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1432-1475 | - |