Estimated Effects on Abortion by Ethnicity and Distance from Mexican Border
| Non-Hispanics (1) | Hispanics (2) | |
|---|---|---|
| Distance (100s miles) | −0.133*** | −0.258*** |
| (0.020) | (0.036) | |
| Average service population (100,000s) | −0.092*** | <10.0011 |
| (0.031) | (0.041) | |
| Distance × I(<100 miles to Mexican border) | 0.339 | −0.222** |
| (0.287) | (0.089) | |
| Avg. Service Pop × I(<100 miles to Mexican border) | −0.255 | −0.120*** |
| (0.158) | (0.045) |
↵Notes: Estimates are based on a Poisson model evaluating expected abortion rates among women aged 15–44 using county-level data for all 254 Texas counties from 2009–2015. Distance to the Mexican border is calculated as travel distance between county population centroids and the nearest Mexican border crossings that can be used by pedestrians and/or private vehicles. All columns control for county fixed effects, year fixed effects, demographics, the unemployment rate, an indicator for the presence of a family planning clinic in the county, and this indicator’s interaction with post-2012. Standard errors (in parentheses) allow errors to be correlated within counties overtime. Significance: *p<0.10, **p<0.05, ***p<0.01.