TY  - JOUR
AU  - Levine,Phillip B.
AU  - Trainor,Amy B.
AU  - Zimmerman,David J.
TI  - The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions,      Pregnancies, and Births
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5066
PY  - 1995
Y2  - March 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5066
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5066.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Phillip B. Levine
Department of Economics
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Tel: 781/283-2162
Fax: 781/283-2177
E-Mail: plevine@wellesley.edu

David Zimmerman
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA  01267
Tel: 413/597-2192
Fax: 413/597-4045
E-Mail: David.J.Zimmerman@williams.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1995-06-16
AB  - This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant, having an abortion, and bearing a child.  Aggregate, state-level data and microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are applied in the empirical work.  Changes in laws resulting from Supreme Court decisions create a natural experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior.   Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal characteristics are also estimated using alternative fixed effect specifications.  We find that Medicaid funding restrictions are associated with a reduction in both the number of abortions and pregnancies, resulting in either no change or a reduction in births.
ER  -