| Title: |
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Women’s Marriage and Birth Timing: Duration and Competing Risks Analyses |
| Authors: |
Joelle Abramowitz; Jel Codes I |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/jmc/Abramowitz_jmpaper.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2012 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: |
Marriage; Fertility; Out-of-Wedlock Births; Economics of the Family; Assisted |
| Description: |
This paper exploits variation in the mandated insurance coverage of assisted reproductive technology (ART) across U.S. states and over time to examine the connection between the price of ART and women’s timing of marriage and childbearing. A fall in the price of ART could induce women to delay marriage and childbearing because the incidence of infertility increases with age, and greater affordability of ART enables women to delay family formation and then use ART to start families later if they face infertility. To formally identify channels through which greater affordability of ART might impact women’s decisions about timing of family, the paper develops a theoretical model of the price of ART and women’s allocation of time on work and family investment when young and old. The implications of the model suggest that there is a tradeoff between pursuing a family when younger, by giving up a steeper wage trajectory, and pursuing a family when older, which requires the use of ART at a price. A fall in the price of ART induces more women along the wage trajectory distribution to use ART and switch from pursuing family when younger to pursuing family when older. To test the implications of the model, duration and competing risks analyses are estimated that show the effects of ART insurance mandates on women’s timing of first marriage and first birth using the 1968-2009 |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.297.3697; http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/jmc/Abramowitz_jmpaper.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.297.3697; http://www.econ.washington.edu/people/jmc/Abramowitz_jmpaper.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.3C626746 |
| Database: |
BASE |