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Title: Fifty Years Of U.S. Family Planning: Lessons And Implications

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: U.S. family planning policy has grown increasingly controversial over the last decade. This paper assembles new evidence on family plannings shorter and longer-term effects on child outcomes by leveraging two policy experiments during the 1960s and 1970s: (1) the state-level legal restrictions on the sales of contraception and effective repeal through Griswold v. connecticut in 1965 and (2) the early, community-based development of U.S. family planning programs. Building upon previous research that has focused on these policies fertility effects, I present new evidence that family planning policies induce significant improvements in child health at birth and the economic resources of children.

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Authors: Bailey, Martha J.

Conference Name: Spring 2013 Brookings Panel on Economic Activity

Publisher Location: Washington, DC

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality

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