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Interactions between Family and School Environments: Access to Abortion and Selective Schools

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  • Leonard Goff
  • Ofer Malamud
  • Cristian Pop-Eleches
  • Miguel Urquiola

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We use Romanian data to ask whether the benefit of access to better schools is larger for children who experienced better family environments because their parents had access to abortion. We combine regression discontinuity and differences-in-differences designs to estimate impacts on a high-stakes school-leaving exam. We find that access to abortion and access to better schools each have positive impacts but find no consistent evidence of interactions between these impacts. To the extent a pattern emerges, it is suggestive of substitutability rather than complementarity of family and school environments.

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  • Leonard Goff & Ofer Malamud & Cristian Pop-Eleches & Miguel Urquiola, 2025. "Interactions between Family and School Environments: Access to Abortion and Selective Schools," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 60(3), pages 907-949.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:60:y:2025:i:3:p:907-949
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0419-10143R2
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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