The power of the IUD: Effects of expanding access to contraception through Title X clinics

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kelly, Andrea; Lindo, Jason M.; Packham, Analisa
• 署名单位: Grinnell College; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; National Bureau of Economic Research; Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104288
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: Contraception; IUDs; implants; LARCs; childbearing; Family planning; Title X

摘要

We estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative, which provided funds to Title X clinics to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives to low-income women. We find substantial effects on childbearing, concentrated among women in zip codes within 7 miles of clinics: the initiative reduced births by approximately 20% for 15-19 year olds. We also estimate effects of extensive media coverage in 2014 and 2015, and find a substantial increase in LARC insertions, extended effects on births among 15-17 year olds living greater than 7 miles from clinics, and significant reductions in births among 20-24 and 25-29 year olds. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.