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.
| 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 |
