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Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women's Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement

  • Jason M. Lindo
  • Mayra Pineda-Torres
  • David Pritchard
  • Hedieh Tajali
AEA Papers and Proceedings
vol. 110, May 2020
(pp. 231-35)
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Abstract

What do historical changes in legal access to reproductive health care technology tell us about the long-run effects of such changes? We investigate this question using data from the Health and Retirement Study and an identification strategy leveraging variation in exposure to legal changes in access across cohorts born in the same states. We find positive effects on educational attainment that align with prior work but are not statistically significant. We also find positive effects on working in a Social Security-covered job in women's 20s and 30s but no evidence of positive effects on women's earnings in their 50s.

Citation

Lindo, Jason M., Mayra Pineda-Torres, David Pritchard, and Hedieh Tajali. 2020. "Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women's Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 110: 231-35. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20201108

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JEL Classification

  • I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
  • J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
  • J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J26 Retirement; Retirement Policies
  • K32 Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law