Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Lauer, Anna Cecilia
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/142258
Resumo: Portugal legalized voluntary abortion in 2007. Administrative individual-level data from birth registries in Spain and Portugal are used to study the impact of this legalization on fertility and infants’ health outcomes at the municipality level. Using Spain as the control group, both empirical strategies analyze teenagers (16-19) and women aged between 25 and 34. The diference-in-diference indicates a 3.7% decrease in fertility when comparing municipalities within the Nuts III regions. The diference-in-diference combined with propensity score matching determined a 6.7 % decrease. Both negative results were teenager driven. Regarding infant health outcomes, we found a negative impact of 3,8% on premature births, and no impact on low birth weight.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
title Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
spellingShingle Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
Lauer, Anna Cecilia
Portugal
Difference-in-difference
Fertility
Abortion
Matching
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
title_full Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
title_fullStr Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
title_sort Does legalizing abortion decrease fertility? Evidence from Portugal
author Lauer, Anna Cecilia
author_facet Lauer, Anna Cecilia
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Peralta, Susana
Melo, António
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Lauer, Anna Cecilia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Portugal
Difference-in-difference
Fertility
Abortion
Matching
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Portugal
Difference-in-difference
Fertility
Abortion
Matching
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description Portugal legalized voluntary abortion in 2007. Administrative individual-level data from birth registries in Spain and Portugal are used to study the impact of this legalization on fertility and infants’ health outcomes at the municipality level. Using Spain as the control group, both empirical strategies analyze teenagers (16-19) and women aged between 25 and 34. The diference-in-diference indicates a 3.7% decrease in fertility when comparing municipalities within the Nuts III regions. The diference-in-diference combined with propensity score matching determined a 6.7 % decrease. Both negative results were teenager driven. Regarding infant health outcomes, we found a negative impact of 3,8% on premature births, and no impact on low birth weight.
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