From Roe to Dobbs: 50 Years of Cause and Effect of US State Abortion Regulations

C Myers - Annual Review of Public Health, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Roe era was hardly a monolith. For more than 50 years—beginning with abortion
reforms in the 1960s and continuing through the Dobbs decision in 2022—state regulations …

What happens after an abortion denial? A review of results from the Turnaway study

S Miller, LR Wherry, DG Foster - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We provide a brief overview of the Turnaway Study, the first study to collect longitudinal data
on individual women who received versus were denied a wanted abortion in the United …

The economic consequences of being denied an abortion

S Miller, LR Wherry, DG Foster - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
This paper evaluates the financial and economic consequences of being denied an
abortion. We link credit report data to the Turnaway Study, which collected high-quality …

Racial/ethnic and educational inequities in restrictive abortion policy variation and adverse birth outcomes in the United States

SK Redd, WS Rice, MS Aswani, S Blake… - BMC Health Services …, 2021 - Springer
Background To examine racial/ethnic and educational inequities in the relationship between
state-level restrictive abortion policies and adverse birth outcomes from 2005 to 2015 in the …

Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States

S Fischer, H Royer, C White - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2024 - aeaweb.org
Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more
geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over …

How far is too far?: New evidence on abortion clinic closures, access, and abortions

JM Lindo, CK Myers, A Schlosser… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - jhr.uwpress.org
We document the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access, abortions, and births
using variation generated by a law that shuttered nearly half of Texas' clinics. We find …

Use of oral and emergency contraceptives after the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision

DM Qato, R Myerson, A Shooshtari… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The US Supreme CourtDobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organizationdecision
allowed states to strengthen restrictions on abortion access, triggering the closure of family …

Predicted changes in abortion access and incidence in a post-Roe world

C Myers, R Jones, U Upadhyay - Contraception, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To examine changes in travel distance and abortion incidence if Roe v. Wade
were reversed or if abortion were further restricted. Study design We used a national …

Forecasts for a post‐Roe America: The effects of increased travel distance on abortions and births

C Myers - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
I compile novel data measuring county‐level travel distances to abortion facilities and
resident abortion rates from 2009 through 2020. Using these data, I implement a difference …

Undue burden beyond Texas: an analysis of abortion clinic closures, births, and abortions in Wisconsin

J Venator, J Fletcher - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we estimate the impacts of abortion clinic closures on access to clinics in terms
of distance and congestion, abortion rates, and birth rates. Between 2010 and 2017 …