Do parental involvement laws reduce adolescent abortion rates? Academic Article

abstract

• This study assesses the impact of parental involvement laws on adolescent abortion rates and pregnancy rates. The analysis estimates abortion rate and pregnancy rate models using statelevel data pooled over time for adolescents aged 1517 compared to older teens aged 1819 and adults aged 2044. The results indicate that parental involvement laws reduce adolescent abortion rates and may, to a lessor degree, reduce adolescent pregnancy rates. Thus, the findings imply that enforcement of parental involvement laws will increase adolescent fertility rates. Copyright 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

authors

• Ohsfeldt, Robert

published proceedings

• Contemp Econ Policy

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Ohsfeldt, R. L., & Gohmann, S. F.

citation count

• 37

complete list of authors

• Ohsfeldt, Robert L||Gohmann, Stephan F

publication date

• April 1994

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY  Journal

keywords

• Abortion, Induced
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Age Factors
• Catholicism
• Economics
• Genetics And Reproduction
• Government Regulation
• Humans
• Jurisprudence
• Labor, Obstetric
• Legal Approach
• Models, Theoretical
• Parental Consent
• Parental Notification
• Parents
• Pregnancy
• Pregnant Women
• Public Policy
• Social Control, Formal
• State Government
• Third-Party Consent
• United States

PubMed Central ID

• 11659976

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1994.tb00424.x

start page

• 65

end page

• 76

volume

• 12

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7287.1994.tb00424.x

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being