Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women's Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement Conference Paper

abstract

• What do historical changes in legal access to reproductive health care technology tell us about the long-run effects of such changes? We investigate this question using data from the Health and Retirement Study and an identification strategy leveraging variation in exposure to legal changes in access across cohorts born in the same states. We find positive effects on educational attainment that align with prior work but are not statistically significant. We also find positive effects on working in a Social Security-covered job in women's 20s and 30s but no evidence of positive effects on women's earnings in their 50s.

authors

• Lindo, Jason

published proceedings

• AEA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS

altmetric score

• 28.35

author list (cited authors)

• Lindo, J. M., Pineda-Torres, M., Pritchard, D., & Tajali, H.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Lindo, Jason M||Pineda-Torres, Mayra||Pritchard, David||Tajali, Hedieh

publication date

• May 2020

publisher

• American Economic Association  Publisher

published in

• American Economic Association. Papers and Proceedings  Journal

keywords

• 3 Good Health And Well Being
• Aging
• Basic Behavioral And Social Science
• Behavioral And Social Science
• Contraception/reproduction
• Reproductive Health And Childbirth

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1257/pandp.20201108

start page

• 231

end page

• 235

volume

• 110

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20201108

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being