蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
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Who Is Financially Constrained in Their Choice of Contraceptive Method? Lessons from M-CARES
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
vol. 114,
May 2024
(pp. 442–48)
Abstract
The Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) is a randomized control trial that examines how financial constraints affect the choice of contraceptives among uninsured individuals. Although all M-CARES participants are highly financially constrained, these constraints are more binding in some subgroups. Black women, women with less than a high school degree, and women with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty line are less financially constrained, whereas married women and those with three or more children are more financially constrained. A mediation analysis shows that attitudes and beliefs about contraception do not explain this heterogeneity across groups.Citation
Bailey, Martha J., Lea Bart, Alexa Prettyman, Vanessa Wanner Lang, and Vanessa Dalton. 2024. "Who Is Financially Constrained in Their Choice of Contraceptive Method? Lessons from M-CARES." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 114: 442–48. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241108Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- G51 Household Finance: Household Saving, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
- H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination