Arbeitspapier
Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access
This paper presents new causal evidence on the "power" of oral contraceptives in shaping women's lives, leveraging the 1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that affected Pill take-up. We analyze administrative data to demonstrate that, after Pill liberalization, minors from less conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how these large effects were eliminated for women facing a higher share of gatekeepers – general practitioners and pharmacists – who were opposed to providing the Pill on religious grounds.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16051
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Cultural Economics: Religion
- Thema
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birth control
religion
fertility
marriage
human capital
the Netherlands
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Marie, Olivier
Zwiers, Esmée
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Marie, Olivier
- Zwiers, Esmée
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2023
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