Replication Data for: Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women's Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jason Lindo, Texas A&M University
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Project Citation:
Lindo, Jason. Replication Data for: Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women’s Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-09-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120829V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We investigate how historical changes in contraception and
abortion access impact women’s long-run outcomes. We use data from the Health
and Retirement Study and an identification strategy that leverages variation in
exposure to legal changes in access across cohorts born in the same states
during the 1960s and 1970s. We follow the methodology of Bailey, Hershbein, and
Miller (2012), who used the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women and
documented significant increases in contraception use at ages 18-20 associated
with unmarried women’s ability to consent for contraception at such ages. They
also documented increased educational attainment and increased earnings in
women’s 30s and 40s associated with this confidential access to contraception.
Our analysis revisits the effects on education and earnings. We also
investigate the sensitivity of the estimated impacts to the legal coding and
control variables used in Myers’ (2017) study of the effects on fertility and
marriage.
The results for educational attainment align with prior work
but are not statistically significant.
The results for earnings indicate increases in the probability of working in a Social Security (SS) covered job in women’s 20s and 30s associated with early access to contraception and abortion, but we find no evidence of positive effects on women’s earnings in their 50s.
The results for earnings indicate increases in the probability of working in a Social Security (SS) covered job in women’s 20s and 30s associated with early access to contraception and abortion, but we find no evidence of positive effects on women’s earnings in their 50s.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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abortion;
contraception;
education;
earnings;
Social Security
JEL Classification:
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J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Data Type(s):
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Methodology
Data Source:
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Health and Retirement Study public and confidential data.
Replication packages of:
- Myers, Caitlin Knowles. 2017. "The power of abortion policy: Reexamining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control" Journal of Political Economy, 125(6), 2178-2224.
- Bailey, Martha J., Brad Hershbein, and Amalia R. Miller. 2012. "The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4 (3): 225-54.
Replication packages of:
- Myers, Caitlin Knowles. 2017. "The power of abortion policy: Reexamining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control" Journal of Political Economy, 125(6), 2178-2224.
- Bailey, Martha J., Brad Hershbein, and Amalia R. Miller. 2012. "The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4 (3): 225-54.
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