Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation

The authors thank Elizabeth Ananat, Martha Bailey, Ryan Beasley Dora L. Costa, Claudia Goldin, Joe Ferrie, James Flynn, Michael Haines, Bob Margo, Caitlin Myers, Karen Norberg, and María Padilla-Romo for helpful discussions. Thanks also to participants in the Population Association of America Meetings, National Poverty Center’s Conference on the Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Events, NBER Cohort Studies Working Group, World Congress of Cliometrics, Economic History Association Meetings, and at seminars at Duke University, Northwestern University, Stanford University, University of Illinois, University of California Davis, Cornell University, Boston University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Southern Denmark, Queens University Belfast, Lund University, University of Tennessee, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt University. The authors thank the National Institute on Aging NBER Grant #T32-AG00186 for funding and support. Rachael Lanier, Alexis Weaver, Vasudha Chopra, and Bokseong Jeong provided exceptional research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.