With Jason Lindo and Analisa Packham
Journal of Public Economics, vol. 192, December 2020, Article 104288
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104288
NBER link: #25656, Pre-publication version
Abstract: We estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative, the largest program to have focused on long-acting reversible contraceptives in the United States, which provided funds to Title X clinics so that they could make these contraceptives available to low-income women. We find substantial effects on birth rates, concentrated among women in zip codes within 7 miles of clinics: the initiative reduced births by approximately 20 percent for 15-17 year olds and 18-19 year olds living in such zip codes. We also examine how extensive media coverage of the initiative in 2014 and 2015 altered its reach. After information spread about the availability and benefits of LARCs, we find a substantial increase in LARC insertions, extended effects on births among 15-17 year olds living greater than 7 miles from clinics, and significant reductions in births among 20-24 and 25-29 year olds.
Media coverage: The Daily Mail, The Denver Post, The Weeds (Vox)
revisions requested - Journal of Human Resources
In 2011, Pennsylvania passed regulations requiring abortion-providing facilities to meet ambulatory surgical facility standards, which ultimately caused the closure of almost half of the state’s abortion facilities. All closing facilities were geographically near facilities that remained open, meaning distance to the nearest clinic was unchanged while local clinic capacity fell. I use a difference-in-differences design supplemented with a synthetic control method and find that reduced clinic capacity caused 20-30 percent fewer abortions in the first 8 weeks of gestation and more abortions at later gestational ages. While evidence suggests births may have increased slightly, the main impact closures had on local women was a delay in abortions.
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with David Z. Dai, Analysis Group
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