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How do welfare states support reproductive equity? A comparative analysis across countries and over time

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  • Zagel, Hannah

    (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

  • Tamakoshi, Mio

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This paper investigates how welfare states address stratification of reproduction. Whether, when and how people have children is historically an area of intense state intervention and remains so today. Building on comparative welfare state research and inspired by research on stratified reproduction, we examine regulatory provisions towards abortion, contraception and medically assisted reproduction, empirically mapping the institutional landscape for 30 countries between 1995 and 2020. We propose a conceptual framework of ‘reproductive equity support’, defined as the sum of statutory permitted and resourced reproductive options, which varies across four ideal types: conservative, paternalistic, libertarian and comprehensive. Second, we operationalize permissiveness and generosity for contraception, abortion and medically assisted reproduction using policy indicators from the novel International Reproduction Policy Database. We find strong variation between countries, and substantive shifts over time: while most countries make a leap towards more permissive reproduction policy, increase in generosity is less pronounced and less wide-spread.

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  • Zagel, Hannah & Tamakoshi, Mio, 2025. "How do welfare states support reproductive equity? A comparative analysis across countries and over time," SocArXiv 9ypz3_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:9ypz3_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/9ypz3_v1
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