| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/10/14, 5:23 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Increased access to family planning programs is linked to higher incomes and better college completion later in life, according to new research.
“Cheaper and more reliable contraception reduces the immediate and expected costs of delaying childbearing, freeing up resources in the parents’ human capital,” according to the new working paper by University of Michigan economist Martha Bailey. Such a delay allows “soon-to-be parents to get more education, work experience, and job training, and thus increase their lifetime
earnings.”
Before the Supreme Court’s 1965 case Griswold v. Connecticut, a number of states had banned the sale of contraception. The paper, which primarily used data from the 2000 Census and the 2005-2011 American Community Survey, found that children conceived in areas that had higher
legal or financial access to the birth-control pill were associated with a 2%-3% increase in income when they were adults. Children in these areas also had a 2%-7% higher chance of finishing college.
Family planning programs may also cut down on fertility rates and reduce family size, which gives parents more money to invest in the children they do end up having, the study points out. Such parental investment can help the prospects of kids as they grow up.
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