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Author: Trainor, Amy B.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Levine, Phillip B.
Trainor, Amy B.
Zimmerman, David J.
The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies and Births
Journal of Health Economics 15,5 (October 1996): 555-578.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016762969600495X
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Abortion; Benefits, Disability; Child Care; Childbearing; Children; Demography; Fertility; Medicaid/Medicare; Modeling; Morbidity; Mortality; Poverty; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; State Welfare; Welfare

This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant, having an abortion, and bearing a child. The authors exploit a natural experiment afforded by Supreme Court decisions and employ more traditional multivariate models with alternative fixed effect specifications. An analysis of twelve years of state-level data indicate that restrictions are associated with a reduction in abortions and either no change or a reduction in births, implying fewer pregnancies. Subsequent analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is consistent with these findings and show the response is concentrated among the low-income population.
Bibliography Citation
Levine, Phillip B., Amy B. Trainor and David J. Zimmerman. "The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies and Births." Journal of Health Economics 15,5 (October 1996): 555-578.
2. Levine, Phillip B.
Trainor, Amy B.
Zimmerman, David J.
The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies, and Births
NBER Working Paper No. 5066, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 1995.
Also: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W5066
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Abortion; Behavior; Childbearing; Fertility; Government Regulation; Medicaid/Medicare; Poverty; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; State Welfare

This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant, having an abortion, and bearing a child. Aggregate, state-level data and microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are applied in the empirical work. Changes in laws resulting from Supreme Court decisions create a natural experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal characteristics are also estimated using alternative fixed effect specifications. We find that Medicaid funding restrictions are associated with a reduction in both the number of abortions and pregnancies, resulting in either no change or a reduction in births. Full-text available on-line: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W5066
Bibliography Citation
Levine, Phillip B., Amy B. Trainor and David J. Zimmerman. "The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies, and Births." NBER Working Paper No. 5066, National Bureau of Economic Research, March 1995.