Does Parental Consent for Birth Control Affect Underage Pregnancy Rates? The Case of Texas
Previous work based on conjectural responses of minors predicted that the 2003 Texas requirement for parental consent for state-funded birth control to minors would lead to a large increase in underage pregnancies. We use state-and countylevel data to test this prediction. The latter allow us to com...
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Volume: | 50 |
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Main Author: |
Sourafel Girma
David Paton |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Place of publication: |
Boston Springer 01.11.2013 Springer US SPRINGER |
published in: | Demography Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 2105 - 2128 |
ORCID: |
0000-0001-5815-1619 0000-0002-7486-9353 |
Data of publication: | 20131101 |
ISSN: |
0070-3370 1533-7790 |
EISSN: |
1533-7790 |
Discipline: | Economics |
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Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2013 Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS |