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Title: Abortion and Child Outcomes
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Kotikula, Aphichoke |
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Abortion and Child Outcomes Presented: New York, NY, European Society for Population Economics, 17th Annual Congress, June 2003. Also: Johns Hopkins University, Oct 2002; http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/conferences/ESPE/papers/kotikulaa.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) Keyword(s): Abortion; Endogeneity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study develops a framework to answer the hypothetical question: what would child outcomes be, had the woman made a different decision about abortion during the pregnancy? I measure and test the significance of the differences between child outcomes from assuming two conditions hold: a) the women not having abortions bring their pregnancies to term and b) the women who had abortions have children later. My study is confined to the abortion decision in the first pregnancy. Due to the panel structure of the child outcome data, the random effects model is the primary estimation technique. Even after controlling for a woman's family background factors, endogeneity in abortion decision might persist. This study used variables relating to the state-level abortion accessibility as instrumental variables in order to deal with this problem. My findings show that the abortion decision significantly improves child outcomes in mathematical test and reading recognition test but not in reading comprehension test or vocabulary test. The explanation is that the timing of pregnancy is important and will influence the child outcomes. |
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Bibliography Citation
Kotikula, Aphichoke. "Abortion and Child Outcomes." Presented: New York, NY, European Society for Population Economics, 17th Annual Congress, June 2003. |