The effect of expansions in Medicaid income eligibility on abortion

Demography

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-192

  Joyce, Theodore ^a   Kaestner, Robert ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAID; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; MEDICAID;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT EFFECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICAID; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOUTH CAROLINA; STATE GOVERNMENT; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0030136321     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061871     Document Type: Article

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