The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortion, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases

Previously circulated as "The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services: Evidence from Texas." We thank representatives from Fund Texas Choice and Jaclyn Bays from Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of Texas for providing data. This paper has benefited from helpful comments from Martha Bailey, Tom Chang, Chloe East, Mireille Jacobson, Caitlin Myers, Analisa Packham, Maya Rossin-Slater and Jenna Stearns. We also thank participants at the following conferences: IZA Workshop on Gender and Family Economics, Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings, Southern California Conference for Applied Microeconomics, CSWEP Session on Family and Gender at WEAI Annual Conference, International Health Economics Association Biennial World Congress, as well as UCSB Labor Lunch Seminar participants and seminar participants at Cal Poly SLO and San Diego State. Certain calculations in this paper are based on data from the Nielsen Company (U.S.), LLC and marketing databases provided by the Kilts Center for Marketing Data Center at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• July 27, 2017