Arbeitspapier
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality
Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths averted nationally in the first year abortion became legal. We also find that early state-level legalizations were crucial, and more influential than the Roe v. Wade decision itself.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15657
- Klassifikation
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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
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abortion
legal abortion
maternal mortality
Roe v. Wade
maternal health
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Farin, Sherajum Monira
Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren
Pesko, Michael
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Farin, Sherajum Monira
- Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren
- Pesko, Michael
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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