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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2022
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15657
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
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 30-40%, with 113 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.
Schlagwörter: 
abortion
legal abortion
maternal mortality
Roe v. Wade
maternal health
JEL: 
I18
J13
K38
H75
Dokumentart: 
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