Others have looked at economic outcomes for children born in the era when abortion was legal compared to those of children who would have been born only (or primarily) because of abortion restrictions or bans. The reversal of Roe is unlikely to reverse the birthrate by as much, because of new medical technologies (abortion medication and birth control methods such as IUD) offering safer alternatives for reducing the risk of unwanted pregnancies. Wade decision) led to an approximately 5 percentage point reduction in the aggregate birth rate. states during the 1970s (and eventually culminated in the 1973 Roe v. Some researchers have estimated that the legalization of abortion that took place across U.S. Luigi Pistaferri (Image credit: Courtesy Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences) Pistaferri, whose research examines family consumption, family labor supply, welfare reform, and inequality issues, is a professor of economics in the School of Humanities and Sciences and is the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.Ĭan you give a brief overview of the economic effects Roe v.
Research by his colleagues shows that restrictions will lead to lower educational attainment, which is associated with lower labor force participation, lower wages, and lower career prospects – ultimately leading, most likely, to an increase in inequality. Here, Pistaferri summarizes some of the large body of scholarship in his field that shows the economic consequences the legalization of abortion has had in the United States, and what that research reveals about a future where reproductive health choices are severely limited. What the field of economics reveals about the overturning of Roe v.
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