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How Far Is Too Far?

New Evidence on Abortion Clinic Closures, Access, and Abortions

Jason Lindo, Caitlin Myers, Andrea Schlosser and Scott Cunningham
Published online before print May 06, 2019, 1217-9254R3; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.55.4.1217-9254R3
Jason Lindo
Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, Research Associate at NBER, and Research Fellow at IZA.
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Caitlin Myers
Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Research Fellow at IZA.
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Andrea Schlosser
Medical student at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
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Associate Professor of Economics at Baylor University.
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We document the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access, abortions, and births using variation generated by a law that shuttered nearly half of Texas' clinics. We find substantial and non-linear effects of travel distance on abortion rates: an increase in travel distance from 0-50 miles to 50-100 miles reduces abortion rates by 16 percent, and that the effects of increasing distance are smaller when the nearest clinic is already more than 50 miles away. We also demonstrate the importance of congestion with a proxy capturing effects of closures which have little impact on distance but which reduce clinics per-capita.

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Jason Lindo, Caitlin Myers, Andrea Schlosser, Scott Cunningham
Journal of Human Resources May 2019, 1217-9254R3; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.4.1217-9254R3

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