Two analyses are proposed: 1) Analysis of the period before and after the 1976 Hyde amendment that restricted the use of federal funds to pay for abortions for poor women. Currently 12 states use their funds to make up for the lost federal funds. 2) Analysis of the effects of changes in the level of funding of the North Carolina abortion fund on pregnancy outcomes. Two analyses are proposed in this part -- one at the aggregate level, addressing monthly measures of outcomes, and the second that examines outcomes at the individual level. The outcomes that will be analyzed are abortion, fertility and pregnancy rates; the proportion of pregnancies resolved as abortions; the proportion low birth weight. Some of these outcomes are analyzed for socio-economic subgroups that are most extensively affected by changes in policies.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HD032134-04
Application #
6181679
Study Section
Social Sciences and Population Study Section (SSP)
Program Officer
Newcomer, Susan
Project Start
1996-07-07
Project End
2002-06-30
Budget Start
2000-07-01
Budget End
2001-06-30
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$174,623
Indirect Cost
Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Miscellaneous
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
078861598
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599
Cook, P J; Parnell, A M; Moore, M J et al. (1999) The effects of short-term variation in abortion funding on pregnancy outcomes. J Health Econ 18:241-57