Negative supply shocks and delayed health care: evidence from Pennsylvania abortion clinics

Andrea Hall

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Abstract: In 2011, Pennsylvania passed regulations requiring abortion-providing facilities to meet ambulatory surgical facility standards, which ultimately caused the closure of almost half of the state's abortion facilities. All closing facilities were geographically near facilities that remained open, meaning distance to the nearest clinic was unchanged while local clinic capacity fell. I use a difference-in-differences design supplemented with a synthetic control method and find that reduced clinic capacity caused 20-30 percent fewer abortions in the first 8 weeks of gestation and more abortions at later gestational ages. While evidence suggests births may have increased slightly, the main impact closures had on local women was a delay in abortions.

Keywords: abortion; clinic closures; reproductive health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I14 I18 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-07
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