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Title: Abortions, Inequality and Family Formation

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: In the last three decades over a million abortions were performed annually in the United States. Empirical studies such as Gruber, Levine and Staiger (1999) assess the impact of legalization of abortions on living conditions of children. They argue that legalization of abortions provides better living conditions and human capital endowments to surviving children. This paper takes seriously the hypothesis that legalized abortion can improve the living conditions of children and hence alter their future labor market outcomes. The main question of the paper is what are the implications of abortions for income inequality, intergenerational transmission of income and family formation. A model of fertility, human capital transmission, contraception and abortion decisions is built to answer this question quantitatively.

Url: https://econ.tau.ac.il/sites/economy.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/Economics/Sapir/conferences/kocharkov_jmp 2011.pdf

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Authors: Kocharkov, Georgi

Publisher: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Population Data Science

Countries: United States