Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282735 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16608
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization sparked the most profound transformation of the landscape of abortion access in 50 years. We provide the first estimates of the effects of this decision on fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data for the first half of 2023. The results indicate that states with abortion bans experienced an average increase in births of 2.3 percent relative to states where abortion was not restricted.
Subjects: 
abortion
Dobbs
fertility
power analysis
JEL: 
I11
I12
I18
J13
K23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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