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@article{Bailey2006MorePT, title={More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Life Cycle Labor Supply}, author={Martha J. Bailey}, journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics}, year={2006}, volume={121}, pages={289-320}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:275311}}The release of Enovid in 1960, the first birth control pill, afforded U. S. women unprecedented freedom to plan childbearing and their careers. This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in state consent laws to evaluate the causal impact of the pill on the timing of first births and extent and intensity of women's labor-force participation. The results suggest that legal access to the pill before age 21 significantly reduced the likelihood of a first birth before age 22, increased the… Figures and Tables from this paper642 CitationsThe Power of the Pill: A Path AnalysisRewat Thamma-ApiroamEconomics, Sociology2007The results show that there are strongly positive impacts induced by the pill on women’s job status, the age at first marriage of women, girls’ education, women�'s labor force participation but relatively little on women's earnings.44 ReferencesRoe v Wade and American fertility.P. LevineP. Levine D. ZimmermanPolitical Science, Sociology1999A complete recriminalization of abortion nationwide could result in 440,000 additional births per year, and a reversal of the Roe v Wade decision leaving abortion legal in some states would substantially limit this impact because of the extent of travel between states.
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