Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes
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| Title: | Coverage of infertility treatment and fertility outcomes |
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| Authors: | Machado, Matilde P. | Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna |
| Research Group/s: | Economía Laboral y Econometría (ELYE) |
| Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
| Keywords: | Assisted reproductive technologies | Infertility insurance mandates | Completed fertility | Delay of motherhood | Synthetic control method |
| Knowledge Area: | Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2015 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Citation: | SERIEs. 2015, 6(4): 407-439. doi:10.1007/s13209-015-0135-0 |
| Abstract: | Policy interventions that increase insurance coverage for infertility treatments may affect fertility trends, and ultimately, population age structures. However, such policies have ignored the overall impact of coverage on fertility. We examine short-term and long-term effects of increased insurance coverage for infertility on the timing of first births and on women’s total fertility rates. Our main contribution is to show that infertility mandates enacted in the United States during the 80s and 90s did not increase the total fertility rates of women by the end of their reproductive lives. We also show evidence that these mandates induced women to put off motherhood. |
| Sponsor: | Matilde P. Machado acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Grant SEJ2007-66268 and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad Grant ECO2010-20504. Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Grants ECO2011-28822 and ECO2014-58434-P. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/52312 |
| ISSN: | 1869-4187 (Print) | 1869-4195 (Online) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13209-015-0135-0 |
| Language: | eng |
| Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Peer Review: | si |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-015-0135-0 |
| Appears in Collections: | INV - ELYE - Artículos de Revistas |
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