Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Abortion demand

Population Research and Policy Review Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Abortion may be characterized as fertility control. Costs and benefits of an additional child are weighed over time. If costs exceed benefits, fertility control is employed. An economic model of abortion demand is developed that incorporates price, income, demographic factors (tastes), and public policy issues such as abortion funding. A key finding is that state abortion funding, substituted for federal funding under Medicaid as a result of the Hyde Amendments, may be important to abortion demand but it is difficult to differentiate its effect from other effects at the state level with an econometric model.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price includes VAT (Canada)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Alan Guttmacher Institute (1985).Abortion Services in the United States, Each State and Metropolitan Area, 1981–1982. New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deyak, T.A. and V.K. Smith (1976). ‘The economic value of statute reform: the case of liberalized abortion’,Journal of Political Economy 84: 83–99.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gallup, George H. (1984).The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1983. Scholarly Resources Inc. Wilmington.

    Google Scholar 

  • Henshaw, Stanley K. (1987). ‘Characteristics of U.S. Women Having Abortions, 1982–1983’,Family Planning Perspectives 19: 5–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Medoff, M.H. (1988). ‘An economic analysis of the demand for abortions’,Economic Inquiry 26: 353–59.

    Google Scholar 

  • Michael, R.T. (1973). ‘Education and the derived demand for children’,Journal of Political Economy 81: S128–64.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nestor, B. and R.B. Gold (1984). ‘Public funding of contraceptive, sterilization and abortion services, 1982’,Family Planning Perspectives 16: 128–133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Singh, Susheela (1986). ‘Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States: An Interstate Analysis’,Family Planning Perspectives 18: 210–220.

    Google Scholar 

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census (1987).Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Economics, University of Missouri, 65401-0249, Rolla, Missouri, USA

    Christopher Garbacz

Authors
  1. Christopher Garbacz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Garbacz, C. Abortion demand. Popul Res Policy Rev 9, 151–160 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02343247

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02343247

Keywords

Search

Navigation