Does Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities?: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

Martha Bailey, Olga Malkova and Zoë M. McLaren

Journal of Human Resources, 2019, vol. 54, issue 4, 825-856

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between parents’ access to family planning and the economic resources of their children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that children born after programs began had 2.8% higher household incomes. They were also 7% less likely to live in poverty and 12% less likely to live in households receiving public assistance. A bounding exercise suggests that the direct effects of family planning programs on parents’ resources account for roughly two-thirds of these gains.

JEL-codes: I3 J13 J16 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.54.4.1216-8401R1
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