Department of Economics, Uppsala University and UCLS, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies, Sweden.
J Health Econ. 2011 Dec;30(6):1219-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.08.004. Epub 2011 Aug 17.
We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime were removed from power, to understand its impact on children's health at birth and during early childhood and whether the lift of the ban had an immediate impact on child abandonment. We find insignificant estimates for health at birth outcomes and anthropometric z-scores at age 4 and 5, except for the probability of low birth weight which is slightly higher for children born after abortion became legal. Additionally, our findings suggest that the lift of the ban had decreased the number of abandoned children.
我们利用家庭调查数据和一项针对机构化儿童的独特普查，分析了罗马尼亚堕胎合法化的影响。我们利用 1989 年 12 月堕胎禁令的解除，当时共产主义独裁者齐奥塞斯库及其政权被推翻，来了解其对儿童出生时和幼儿期健康的影响，以及禁令的解除是否对弃婴行为产生了直接影响。我们发现，除了出生体重较低的概率略高之外，对于出生时的健康结果和 4 岁和 5 岁时的人体测量 Z 分数，估计值并不显著，而出生体重较低的概率略高是因为堕胎合法化后出生的儿童。此外，我们的研究结果表明，禁令的解除减少了被遗弃儿童的数量。
