The impact of emergency birth control on teen pregnancy and STIs

We use panel data from local authorities in England between 1998 and 2004 to examine the differential impact of increased access for teenagers to emergency birth control (EBC) at pharmacies on teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We estimate both difference-in-difference (...

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Volume:	30
Main Author:	Girma, Sourafel Paton, David
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 2011 ELSEVIER Elsevier
published in:	Journal of health economics Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 373 - 380
ORCID:	0000-0002-7486-9353 0000-0001-5815-1619
Data of publication:	2011
ISSN:	0167-6296 1879-1646
EISSN:	1879-1646
Discipline:	Public Health Economics
Series:	Journal of Health Economics
Subjects:	Emergency birth control Teenage pregnancy Sexually transmitted infections Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Care Sciences & Services Business & Economics Health Policy & Services Science & Technology Pregnancy Young Adult England - epidemiology Humans Adolescent Contraception, Postcoital Female Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology Empirical Research Pregnancy in Adolescence - statistics & numerical data Emergency birth control Teenage pregnancy Sexually transmitted infections Drugstores Birth control Sexually transmitted diseases Pregnant women Analysis Health administration England I18 Emergency birth control C21 Teenage pregnancy J13 Sexually transmitted infections SEXUAL-BEHAVIOR CONTRACEPTION ACCESS
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