Evaluación de la despenalización del aborto en Uruguay en la fecundidad adolescente

Zuleika Ferre

No 1115, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: In 2012, Uruguay passed a law allowing for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy within the first 12 weeks of gestation. This research explores the effect of this change on teenage fertility and the composition of births, using a difference-in-differences strategy and taking planned fertility as a control group assumed to not be affected by the abortion law. The results obtained in the analysis suggest that this policy change did not have an impact on adolescent fertility behavior in the first months after implementation. Also, no significant effect on the composition of births of teenage mother is found, which is consistent with the absence of a relevant effect of this policy measure in the short run.

Keywords: Aborto; fecundidad adolescente. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 66 pages
Date: 2015-12
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