@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15657,
            	author={Farin, Sherajum Monira and Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren and Pesko, Michael},
            	title={The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality},
            	year={2022},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15657},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15657},
	abstract={Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths averted nationally in the first year abortion became legal. We also find that early state-level legalizations were crucial, and more influential than the Roe v. Wade decision itself.},
	keywords={maternal health;Roe v. Wade;maternal mortality;legal abortion;abortion},
            }