Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173218 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 167
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second-generation individuals who did not face such legal constraint. Using multiple censuses from Romania, I follow men and women born around the 1966 Romanian abortion ban to study the demand for children over their life cycle. The empirical approach combines elements of the regressions discontinuity design and the Heckman's selection model. Results indicate that second-generation individuals whose mothers were affected by the ban had a significantly lower demand for children. One-third of such decline is explained by inherited socio-economic status and two-thirds presumably by preferences.
Subjects: 
intergenerational fertility transmission
fertility preferences
Romania
abortion ban
JEL: 
J13
O15
P36
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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