TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lahey,Joanna N.
AU  - Wanamaker,Marianne H.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - State and Local Government: Health • Education • Welfare • Public Pensions
KW  - jelc
KW  - Demographic Economics
KW  - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth
KW  - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Criminal Law
KW  - Civil Law • Common Law
KW  - Human Rights Law • Gender Law • Animal Rights Law
KW  - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
KW  - U.S. • Canada: Pre-1913
KW  - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation
N1  - July 2022; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Recent studies based on 20th century US data conclude that abortion access raises children's average socioeconomic outcomes. We generalize a model of fertility, highlighting assumptions under which these abortion predictions can be reversed. Using 19th century abortion restrictions, we empirically demonstrate these points. Despite a more than 5 percent increase in birth rates among abortion-restricted cohorts, we find little evidence of negative selection at birth. Longevity was affected nevertheless; in the first ten years of life, children in these larger cohorts died of infectious disease more frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or other offsetting factors
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w30201
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30201
ER  -