Seminar: New evidence on the effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar ‘New evidence on the effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion,’ presented by Professor Jason Lindo from Texas A&M University.
Beyond a handful of studies examining early-adopting states in the early 1990s, little is known about the causal effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion. In this study we evaluate the effects of a Tennessee law enacted in 2015 that requires women to make an additional trip to abortion providers for state-directed counselling at least 48 hours before they can obtain an abortion. Our difference-in-differences and synthetic-control estimates indicate that the introduction of the mandatory waiting period caused a 48-73 percent increase in the share of abortions obtained during the second trimester. Our analysis examining overall abortion rates is less conclusive but suggests a reduction caused by the waiting period. Putting these estimates into context, our back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that Tennessee's MWP increased the monetary costs of obtaining an abortion by as much as $929 for some women.
Speaker
Jason Lindo is a Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University and a Research Fellow at the NBER. He is also a Co-editor at the Economic Inquiry and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics. His research has focused primarily on the youth and on topics concerning health and violence. His recent and ongoing work is especially focused on documenting the effects of changes in access to reproductive healthcare. His research has appeared in top economics journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, AEJ: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources.
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:
- 14 October 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 ‘New evidence on the effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion,’ presented by Professor Jason Lindo from Texas A&M University.
Beyond a handful of studies examining early-adopting states in the early 1990s, little is known about the causal effects of mandatory waiting periods for abortion. In this study we evaluate the effects of a Tennessee law enacted in 2015 that requires women to make an additional trip to abortion providers for state-directed counselling at least 48 hours before they can obtain an abortion. Our difference-in-differences and synthetic-control estimates indicate that the introduction of the mandatory waiting period caused a 48-73 percent increase in the share of abortions obtained during the second trimester. Our analysis examining overall abortion rates is less conclusive but suggests a reduction caused by the waiting period. Putting these estimates into context, our back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that Tennessee's MWP increased the monetary costs of obtaining an abortion by as much as $929 for some women.
Speaker
Jason Lindo is a Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University and a Research Fellow at the NBER. He is also a Co-editor at the Economic Inquiry and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics. His research has focused primarily on the youth and on topics concerning health and violence. His recent and ongoing work is especially focused on documenting the effects of changes in access to reproductive healthcare. His research has appeared in top economics journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, AEJ: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources.
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!