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Title: Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We examine short-term and long-term effects of increased insurance coverage for infertility on the timing of rest births and on womens total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States during the 80s and 90s did not increase the total fertility rates of women by the end of their reproductive lives. We also show evidence that these mandates induced women to put o motherhood.

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Authors: Machado, Matilde P; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna

Publisher: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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Topics: Fertility and Mortality

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