The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Farin, Sherajum Monira; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Pesko, Michael F.
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20220208
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 174-216
• 关键词: parental involvement laws; Differences-in-differences; raise divorce rates; roe v wade; UNITED-STATES; access; TRENDS; POLICY; birth; pill

摘要

Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential health care service. In this study, , we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health as measured by maternal mortality. Our event study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered non-White maternal mortality by 30-50 percent, , with 134 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. ( JEL I12, I18, J13, J16, K10, K38) )