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Title: The Impact of Anti-Abortion Laws on Fertility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: In this paper we examine the impact of nineteenth-century abortion legislation on couples’ ability to control fertility. We rely on newly available complete-count census microdata of the 1850 census (Ruggles et al. 2010), the timing of state anti-abortion laws, and difference-indifference methods to estimate the impact of anti-abortion legislation on fertility rates. In contrast to prior research based on published child-woman ratios (Lahey 2014a, 2014b), we find no significant impact of nineteenth-century abortion legislation on fertility.

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Authors: Hacker, J. David; Johnson, Janna, E

Conference Name: Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2017

Publisher Location: Chicago, IL

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Gender, Other

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