Data and Code for: The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality.
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lauren Hoehn Velasco, Georgia State University; Michael Pesko; Sherajum Monira Farin
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Project Citation:
Hoehn Velasco, Lauren, Pesko, Michael , and Farin, Sherajum Monira. Data and Code for: The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-06-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E187421V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Data and replication for The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality
Abstract: Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-50%, with 134 non-white maternal deaths averted nationally in the first year abortion became legal. We also find that early state-level legalizations were crucial, and more influential than the Roe v. Wade decision itself.
Abstract: Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-50%, with 134 non-white maternal deaths averted nationally in the first year abortion became legal. We also find that early state-level legalizations were crucial, and more influential than the Roe v. Wade decision itself.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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maternal mortality;
abortion;
roe v. wade
JEL Classification:
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H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
K38 Human Rights Law; Gender Law
H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
K38 Human Rights Law; Gender Law
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1959 – 1980
Collection Date(s):
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2019 – 2022
Universe:
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Main sample: reproductive age females 15-44 in the US with the year of death between 1959-1980
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data;
aggregate data;
census/enumeration data;
observational data;
other
Methodology
Data Source:
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This paper primarily uses Mortality Data from the U.S. Vital Statistics and U.S. Census data for the years 1950 to 1980 from IPUMS. See README file for all data sources.
Weights:
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Population
Unit(s) of Observation:
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State by year observations
Geographic Unit:
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State
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