Abortion access and birth outcomes: evidence from Spain

Marco Cozzani, University of Firenze
Gaia Ghirardi , WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Miguel Requena, UNED
Fabrizio Bernardi, UNED
Mikolaj Stanek, University of Salamanca

Women's reproductive rights, such as having the ability to access legal and safe abortion, are linked to improved women's reproductive health and socioeconomic well-being. Does different access to induced abortion have an impact on infant health? In this paper, we examine the impact of access to induced abortion (IA) on infant health. We leverage variation in IA across Spanish provinces and combine IA registers and birth certificates from 2011 to 2018. Preliminary results suggest that IA access, as measured by the IA rate, does not impact any birth outcome. Further analyses will extend the current study by exploring population heterogeneities and investigating abortion access as proximity to a public clinic, in addition to AI rate

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 Presented in Session P1. Families, Fertility, and the Life Course 1