The power of the IUD: Effects of expanding access to contraception through Title X clinics

Andrea Kelly, Jason Lindo and Analisa Packham

Journal of Public Economics, 2020, vol. 192, issue C

Abstract: We estimate the effect of Colorado's Family Planning Initiative, which provided funds to Title X clinics to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives to low-income women. We find substantial effects on childbearing, concentrated among women in zip codes within 7 miles of clinics: the initiative reduced births by approximately 20% for 15–19 year olds. We also estimate effects of extensive media coverage in 2014 and 2015, and find a substantial increase in LARC insertions, extended effects on births among 15–17 year olds living greater than 7 miles from clinics, and significant reductions in births among 20–24 and 25–29 year olds.

Keywords: Contraception; IUDs; Implants; LARCs; Childbearing; Family planning; Title X (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 J13 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104288

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