ArticleJournal of health economics2025
Contraceptive access and infant health outcomes.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; it reduces the rates of adverse infant health outcomes. I study a large family planning initiative in the St. Louis metropolitan area that provided thousands of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to reproductive-age women at no cost. Using a synthetic difference-in-differences design, I find that the program led to substantial improvements in infant health, reducing extremely preterm births by 2.18 and infant deaths by 1.74 per 1,000 live births, reductions of approximately 20% for each outcome. I find meaningful reductions for both Black and White mothers, though the effects on Black mothers are less precisely estimated and are smaller as a percentage of the baseline rates, particularly for extremely preterm births.
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