Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258966 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 03/22
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
I investigate the link between access to the contraceptive pill, mental health, and labor market outcomes. While liberalizing labor market effects of access to the pill are well established, a medical literature suggests a link between hormonal contraception and depression. Exploiting variation in access to the pill, I document substantial mental health effects of the pill. These mental health effects counteract the fertility control effect of the pill on labor market outcomes and are associated with limitations at work and more disability periods. The analysis also shows that the fertility control effect of the pill is larger than previously estimated.
Subjects: 
Mental Health
Contraceptive Pill
Fertility
Labor Market Outcomes
JEL: 
J16
J13
J18
J24
I0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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