Arbeitspapier

Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile

We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of administrative datasets on health outcomes and pharmaceutical use, and using difference-in-difference and event study methods, we document that this expansion improved women's reproductive health outcomes, particularly reducing rates of haemorrhage early in pregnancy. These improvements are most notable in areas of the country in which the rollout of the pill was largest. We also document some evidence that refusal to grant the pill upon a women's request is linked with a worsening in reproductive health outcomes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13134

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Rights Law; Gender Law
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
Thema
emergency contraceptives
maternal morbidity
haemorrhage
abortion
event studies
difference-in-differences

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Clarke, Damian
Salinas, Viviana
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Clarke, Damian
  • Salinas, Viviana
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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