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More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan

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Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences Reproductive Health and Contraception Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth (SRB), excess female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan.For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of sex-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortion.Our results show that the legalization of abortion accounts for almost all of the observed increase in SRB during the 1980s and decreased EFM by approximately 20%.Approximately ten more female infants survived for every one hundred that were aborted.Interestingly, we find that while abortion reduced overall fertility, it increased fertility for older mothers.

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