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Title: Restrictions to Abortion Access and Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Contraceptive Use among US Teenagers
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: We assessed the relationship between state parental involvement (PI) laws, sexual activity and contraceptive use among White, Black, and Hispanic female adolescents. We used the 2001-2015 State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, which are representative of high school students in 33 states, and generalized difference-indifference models to assess the association between PI laws and sexual activity, birth control pill use, and condom use, while controlling for other state reproductive health policies and state SES conditions. Our findings show that PI laws are associated with about 5 percentage points of higher pill use among White adolescents, but have no relationship with pill use among Black and Hispanic adolescents. Overall, PI laws are associated with greater Black and Hispanic disadvantage in pill use relative to White adolescents. PI laws are not significantly associated with sexual activity or with using condom as the only contraceptive method for any of the analyzed racial and ethnic groups. Our findings suggest that White teenagers are able to adjust their behaviors in the context of restrictive abortion environments, while Black and Hispanic teenagers are not. PI laws account for a substantial part of the Black-White and Hispanic-White disparities in birth control pill use.
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Authors: Caudillo, Mónica; Boudreaux, Michel; Caudillo, Mónica L
Series Title: Working Paper
Publication Number: 2019-002
Institution: Maryland Population Research Center
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Publisher Location: College, Park, MD
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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