IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/120640.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Distance to Abortion Facilities and Child Living Conditions-Implication of the Abortion Law Change in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Lee, Cheuk Ling
  • Chong, Terence Tai Leung

Abstract

This paper aims to study the effect of distance to abortion facilities on the birth rate, abortion ratio and pregnancy rate in the United States. It will further extend the effect of the change in birth statistics on child living conditions, measured by adjusted family income and the percentage of children living below the poverty line in a state. It will correspond to the amendment of the abortion law in the United States in 2022. Our results suggest that an increase in the distance to abortion facilities will reduce the birth rate, abortion ratio and pregnancy rate. However, for the living circumstances, the significant positive effect was shown only in the black children group and the general groupn when the distance increased. In the non-black children group, the effects were only marginally significant or not significant on their living conditions. The results may also imply different reasons for abortions among different races.

Suggested Citation

  • Lee, Cheuk Ling & Chong, Terence Tai Leung, 2024. "Distance to Abortion Facilities and Child Living Conditions-Implication of the Abortion Law Change in the United States," MPRA Paper 120640, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:120640
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/120640/1/MPRA_paper_120640.pdf
    File Function: original version
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    abortion; distance; US;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:120640. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joachim Winter (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/vfmunde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.