TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindo,Jason M.
AU  - Myers,Caitlin
AU  - Schlosser,Andrea
AU  - Cunningham,Scott
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - How Far Is Too Far? New Evidence on Abortion Clinic Closures, Access, and Abortions
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2017; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w23366
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w23366
ER  -