THE PARADOX OF THE PILL: HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS
The twentieth century saw dramatic increases in nonmarital births, concentrated heavily among poor and working-class women. In this paper, we investigate whether the oral contraceptive pill played a causal role in the rise of nonmarital births. Exploiting exogenous variation in laws governing access...
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| Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
2019
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