Two Sides of the Same Pill? Fertility Control and Mental Health Effects of the Contraceptive Pill

Arbeitspapier

I investigate the link between access to the contraceptive pill, mental health, and labor market outcomes. While liberalizing labor market effects of access to the pill are well established, a medical literature suggests a link between hormonal contraception and depression. Exploiting variation in access to the pill, I document substantial mental health effects of the pill. These mental health effects counteract the fertility control effect of the pill on labor market outcomes and are associated with limitations at work and more disability periods. The analysis also shows that the fertility control effect of the pill is larger than previously estimated.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CEBI Working Paper Series ; No. 03/22

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Thema: Mental Health ; Contraceptive Pill ; Fertility ; Labor Market Outcomes

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Valder, Franziska
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
• (wo): Copenhagen
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258966
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ