Lecture Series Spring 2023

Dozent/in	Judit Vall Castello
Veranstaltungsart	Ringveranstaltung
Code	FS231632
Semester	Frühjahrssemester 2023
Durchführender Fachbereich	Gesundheitswissenschaften
Studienstufe	Master Doktorat
Termin/e	Mo, 27.03.2023, 17:00 - 18:00 Uhr, HS 7
Inhalt	Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Abortion Policies Several countries have changed their policies regarding abortion options in different directions. In this lecture, I am going to review the main evidence in the economic literature on the short- and long-term effects for women of access to legal abortion. I will first review the evidence on the short-term effects in the USA and then move to the long-term effects by focusing on the case of Spain, where abortion was legalized in 1985. Drawing on a recent paper together with my coauthors, I will show that legalization led to an immediate decrease in births, more pronounced for younger women in provinces with a higher supply of abortion services. Affected women were more likely to graduate from high school, less likely to marry young, less likely to divorce in the long term, and reported higher life satisfaction as adults. However, we do not find negative effects on completed fertility, or on labor market outcomes in the long run.
Sprache	Englisch
Anmeldung	phd_health@unilu.ch
Prüfung	written assignment
Hinweise	Mandatory for MSc Health Sciences students For PhD Students: To earn 1 ECTS points, the PhD students submit an excerpt of the individual lectures to the academic director. Guidelines for the excerpt: • 1-2 DIN A4 pages per lecture • text structure : summary of the lecture, discussion points or comments, optional additional references • excerpt has to be send max. 1 week after the lecture