State Abortion and Nonmarital Birthrates in the PostWelfare Reform Era: The Impact of Economic Incentives on Reproductive Behaviors of Teenage and Adult Women  

Oleh:

Kelly, Kimberly ; Grant, Linda

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 21 no. 06 (Dec. 2007), page 878-904.
Topik: welfare reform; abortion; nonmarital births; teen pregnancy; state policy
Fulltext: 878.pdf (142.65KB)

Isi artikel

The impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA, or welfare reform) on the economic circumstances of women and children has received substantial research attention, but provisions of the act that attempt to influence women’s reproductive behaviors have been much less studied. Provisions of PRWORA encouraged states to intensify efforts to restrict access to abortion and to decrease rates of nonmarital births, particularly among teenagers. Using state-level data, this study analyzes the effects of state policies enacted in the wake of welfare reform, controlling for prior rates of abortion and unwed births. The authors find that economic-based incentives have only minor, and inconsistent, influence on statewide rates of abortion and nonmarital births in 2000. Results are consistent with feminist scholarship proposing that noneconomic considerations are more central in women’s decision making about reproduction than economic factors.

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