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Evaluación de la despenalización del aborto en Uruguay en la fecundidad adolescente

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  • Zuleika Ferre

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

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In 2012, Uruguay passed a law allowing for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy within the first 12 weeks of gestation. This research explores the effect of this change on teenage fertility and the composition of births, using a difference-in-differences strategy and taking planned fertility as a control group assumed to not be affected by the abortion law. The results obtained in the analysis suggest that this policy change did not have an impact on adolescent fertility behavior in the first months after implementation. Also, no significant effect on the composition of births of teenage mother is found, which is consistent with the absence of a relevant effect of this policy measure in the short run.

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  • Zuleika Ferre, 2015. "Evaluación de la despenalización del aborto en Uruguay en la fecundidad adolescente," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1115, Department of Economics - dECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ude:wpaper:1115
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    Keywords

    Aborto; fecundidad adolescente.;

    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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