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Title: The Impact of Home Pregnancy Testing on Fertility and Women's Later-Life Outcomes

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: Home pregnancy tests give early fertility information and help women make timely family-planning decisions. This paper studies how the introduction of home pregnancy tests in the US in 1977 impacted fertility, early prenatal care, and later-life outcomes. Using county-level drugstore accessibility to approximate test availability, I document significant trend breaks in fertility rates after 1977 among women who had access to drugstores. The effects are the strongest for those aged 15-29 and concentrated among those with access to abortion services. In the long run, women exposed to home pregnancy tests were more likely to delay childbirth, participate in the labor force, and never marry; these women were also less likely to divorce.

Url: https://ccheng10.github.io/paper/jmp_ctcheng.pdf

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Authors: Cheng, Chien-Tzu

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Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Gender, Reproductive and Sexual Health

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