The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion

We would like to thank Andreas Hagemann, Chris Hollrah, Ted Joyce, Jason Lindo, Heather Royer, and David Slusky, and seminar participants at the APPAM, ASHEcon, and ASSA annual meetings, Brookings Institution, Dartmouth University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Imperial College London, NBER Summer Institute, RAND Corporation, Stanford University, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Michigan for their helpful comments. We also thank Cathleen Kelmar for her help in linking to Experian records. This study was supported by research and institutional grants from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and an anonymous foundation. The authors thank Jasmine Powell, Elizabeth Gonzalez, and Rana Barar for study coordination and management. Laura Wherry also gratefully acknowledges non-financial support from the California Center for Population Research at UCLA, which receives core support (R24-HD041022) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• January 15, 2020
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