Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/158546 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association [ISSN:] 1869-4195 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 407-439
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We examine short-term and long-term effects of increased insurance coverage for infertility on the timing of first births and on women's total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States during the 80s and 90s did not increase the total fertility rates of women by the end of their reproductive lives. We also show evidence that these mandates induced women to put off motherhood.
Subjects: 
Assisted reproductive technologies
Infertility insurance mandates
Completed fertility
Delay of motherhood
Synthetic control method
JEL: 
I18
J13
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Document Type: 
Article

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