The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey
• 署名单位: California State University System; California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.08.009
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 43-68
• 关键词: Family planning; Abortion; birth; Contraception; Reproductive; HEALTH

摘要

Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation over time in access to abortion and family planning services, which we leverage to understand the impact of family planning and abortion clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In response to these policies, abortions to Texas residents fell 16.7% and births rose 1.3% in counties that no longer had an abortion provider within 50 mi. Changes in the family planning market induced a 1.2% increase in births for counties that no longer had a publicly funded family planning clinic within 25 mi. Meanwhile, responses of retail purchases of condoms and emergency contraceptives to both abortion and family planning service changes were minimal. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.