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Social impact of abortion’s decriminalization in Portugal
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This paper studies the impact of legalizing abortion in Portugal on fertility and on
maternal-infant health indicators, namely on low birth weight (LBW). It used individuallevel
data on all pregnancies in Portugal from 2008 to 2014. It retrieved the socio-economic
determinants of abortion in Portugal to find that young women, educated, employed, working
in low skilled jobs, single, with previous children, without easy access to abortion services
and living in conservative regions are more prone to abort. It also found that abortion induces
positive selection effects regarding LBWand that it caused a reduction in Portuguese fertility.
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Social-economic determinants of abortion Selection effects Fertility Birth outcomes