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Title: The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies and Births
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Levine, Phillip B. Trainor, Amy B. Zimmerman, David J. |
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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. |
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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.
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