Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women's Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement
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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.20201108Additional Materials
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