Sex and Consequences (eBook)

Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility

Phillip B. Levine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22164-9 (ISBN)

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How do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? In this innovative book, economist Phillip Levine uses economic analysis to consider this question, comparing abortion to a form of insurance. Like insurance, he contends, abortion provides protection from downside risk. A pregnant woman who would otherwise give birth to an unwanted child has the option to abort. On the other hand, the availability of this option may increase the likelihood of a pregnancy in the first place. In a very restrictive abortion environment, few women would choose to have an abortion; legalizing abortion would reduce unwanted births. But if abortion becomes readily available, it may cause individuals to increase their sexual activity and/or reduce their use of contraception, Levine contends. Women will become pregnant more frequently, but will abort those pregnancies. Therefore, these abortions will not reduce unwanted births. Levine's analysis suggests that the manner in which individuals change their behavior depends on the extent to which abortion is accessible. He supports these assertions using data from both the United States and Eastern Europe, comparing areas that have restricted access to abortion services with those that have liberalized access. Using sound economic analysis, Sex and Consequences goes beyond the ideological arguments that frequently dominate the abortion debate, lending a new perspective to this controversial subject.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 55 line illus. 12 tables. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Abortion clinic • Abortion Debate • Abortion in Canada • Abortion in Romania • Abortion in the United Kingdom • Abortion in the United States • Abortion Law • Abortion rate • Abortion-rights movements • age characteristics • Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) • Anti-abortion movements • Bargaining Power • Birth Control • birth rate • Birth rates • Calculation • Case study • case study methods • Childbirth • City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health • Consideration • contraception practices • Copayment • Cost–benefit analysis • Cross-Sectional Data • Czech Republic • Data sources • Decision-Making • Decision Tree • deductible • de facto • Determinant • Downside Risk • Eastern Europe • Economics • economist • educational outcomes • Empirical Evidence • estimation • Externalities • Externality • Family planning • fertility • fetal losses • Fetus • Funding • Generosity • gestation • gestation times • Government Subsidies • Health Economics • health insurance • Hyde Amendment • illegal abortion • income • income characteristics • Indication (medicine) • Infant Mortality • injunction • insurance • insurance models • labor market opportunities • Legalization • Legislation • Liberalization • Likelihood Function • Limitation • mandatory delay restrictions • Marginal cost • Maternal death • Maternal Health • Maternal mortality • Medicaid • medical abortion • Mifepristone • Miscarriage • National Center for Health Statistics • Negative relationship • parental consent • percentage • Physician • Planned Parenthood • Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth • Planned Parenthood v. Casey • Prediction • Pregnancy • Pregnancy outcome • pregnancy rate • pregnancy rates • prenatal care • Prevalence • Princeton University Press • Probability • Public Policy • Quasi-Experiment • quasi-experimental techniques • Random assignment • Rates (tax) • reasons for abortions • Regression Analysis • Reproductive Health • Requirement • residence • Restrictions • result • Right to Privacy • Roe v. Wade • Single-parent families • spousal notification restrictions • Statistic • Statistical hypothesis testing • statistical significance • Subsidy • Technology • Theft • Trade-off • Treatment and control groups • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Unintended Pregnancy • Vehicle insurance • Webster v. Reproductive Health Services • white women • year • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22164-2 / 0691221642
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22164-9 / 9780691221649