RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 How Far Is Too Far?
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 1137
OP 1160
DO 10.3368/jhr.55.4.1217-9254R3
VO 55
IS 4
A1 Lindo, Jason M.
A1 Myers, Caitlin Knowles
A1 Schlosser, Andrea
A1 Cunningham, Scott
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/55/4/1137.abstract
AB 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 nonlinear 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 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 that have little impact on distance but reduce clinics per capita.