Lindo, Jason M. <br/><br/>
How Far Is Too Far? New Evidence on Abortion Clinic Closures, Access, and Abortions / 
Jason M. Lindo, Caitlin Myers, Andrea Schlosser, Scott Cunningham. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2017. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w23366 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w23366. .
<br/><br/> April 2017. 
<br/><br/> We document the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access, abortions, and births using variation generated by a law that shuttered nearly half of Texas' clinics. Increases in distance have significant effects for women initially living within 200 miles of a clinic. The largest effect is for those nearest to clinics for whom a 25-mile increase reduces abortion 10%. We also demonstrate the importance of congestion with a proxy capturing effects of closures which have little impact on distance but which reduce clinics per-capita. These effects account for 59% of the effects of clinic closures on abortion. 
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