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How Far Is Too Far? New Evidence on Abortion Clinic Closures, Access, and Abortions / Jason M. Lindo, Caitlin Myers, Andrea Schlosser, Scott Cunningham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindo, Jason M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23366.
- NBER working paper series no. w23366
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- We document the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access, abortions, and births using variation generated by a law that shuttered nearly half of Texas' clinics. Increases in distance have significant effects for women initially living within 200 miles of a clinic. The largest effect is for those nearest to clinics for whom a 25-mile increase reduces abortion 10%. We also demonstrate the importance of congestion with a proxy capturing effects of closures which have little impact on distance but which reduce clinics per-capita. These effects account for 59% of the effects of clinic closures on abortion.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2017.
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