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Teenage Pregnancy Risk: the impact of parental involvement for contraception

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Madeline Zavodny () (Department of Economics, Agnes Scott College)
David Paton () (Nottingham University Business School)

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Since April 1998, the only public health clinic in McHenry County, Illinois, has required minors to obtain parental consent before receiving prescription contraceptives. This study uses data on the number of births and abortions to compare changes in birth and abortion rates among minors in the county with the changes among minors in nearby counties and with changes among slightly older women. The results fail to show a significant relative decline in the birth or abortion rate among minors in McHenry County after the parental consent requirement. The failure to find a significant effect is robust to examining different time periods, looking only at non-Hispanic white or unmarried minors, and comparing minors to women aged 18-19. Some estimates that include 18-year-olds indicate a positive effect on births.

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Paper provided by Industrial Economics Division in its series Occasional Papers with number 18.

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Date of creation: 07 Oct 2006
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Keywords: transaction cost property rights innovation

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J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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