Seminar: Measuring the burdens of mandatory waiting periods for abortions
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar 'Measuring the burdens of mandatory waiting periods for abortions' presented by Professor Caitlin Myers of Middlebury College (USA).
Myers's identifies and measures the effects of mandatory waiting periods on abortion obtainment using event study and difference-in-differences research designs that exploit 25 years of state policy variation. The results suggest that mandatory waiting policies that do not require an additional in-person appointment with a provider have small effects on aggregate abortion or birth rates. However, so-called 2-trip mandatory waiting periods are estimated to increase second trimester abortions by 10 percent, reduce overall abortion rates by 11 percent, and increase births by 2 percent. The results further suggest that mandatory waiting periods have even larger effects on abortion obtainment for young women, women of color, and women living in poor and/or rural communities. Evidence on the interactive effects of the laws and county-level characteristics is more consistent with a “burden" rather than a “cooling off interpretation of the findings.
Speaker
Caitlin Myers is a Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Her research examines issues related to gender, race, and the economy, with particular focus on the effects of reproductive policies. Her work has been published in journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Public Economics. It also has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Salon, Vice, and Vox.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 18 November 2020 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar 'Measuring the burdens of mandatory waiting periods for abortions' presented by Professor Caitlin Myers of Middlebury College (USA).
Myers's identifies and measures the effects of mandatory waiting periods on abortion obtainment using event study and difference-in-differences research designs that exploit 25 years of state policy variation. The results suggest that mandatory waiting policies that do not require an additional in-person appointment with a provider have small effects on aggregate abortion or birth rates. However, so-called 2-trip mandatory waiting periods are estimated to increase second trimester abortions by 10 percent, reduce overall abortion rates by 11 percent, and increase births by 2 percent. The results further suggest that mandatory waiting periods have even larger effects on abortion obtainment for young women, women of color, and women living in poor and/or rural communities. Evidence on the interactive effects of the laws and county-level characteristics is more consistent with a “burden" rather than a “cooling off interpretation of the findings.
Speaker
Caitlin Myers is a Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Her research examines issues related to gender, race, and the economy, with particular focus on the effects of reproductive policies. Her work has been published in journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Public Economics. It also has been featured by media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Salon, Vice, and Vox.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!