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Title: Did the US infertility insurance mandates affect the time of birth?

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: From 1977-2001, several US states mandated health insurance providers to o er coveragefor infertility treatment. Although the majority of past literature has studied impacts on olderwomen who are likely to seek treatment, this paper proposes that the mandates may have had awider impact on the US population. Speci cally, it may have given an option for younger womento delay birth due to the reduction of the opportunity cost of having a child in the future. Resultsestimated by the discrete-time proportional hazard model suggest a signi cant delay in the timeto rst birth among highly educated women.

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Authors: Ohinata, Asako

Publisher: Warwick University

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Fertility and Mortality

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