Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Policy on Women's Economic Advancement and Labor Markets

审查生育控制的重要性是理解最近的社会和劳动力市场变化的根源的基础。对联邦政府参与地方计划生育项目的分析将当前的经验置于历史背景中，并以这种方式为当前的政策辩论提供信息。尽管自向贫困开战以来，联邦政府在补贴计划生育方面发挥了关键作用，但这些政策对妇女参与和经济平等的影响却研究不足。相反，经济学的研究集中在堕胎的影响上，堕胎在第一个计划生育计划实施至少十年后才合法化。相对而言，很少有系统的计量经济学研究试图确定生育控制和生育控制政策对妇女迅速融入劳动力市场的影响，以及这种过渡对劳动力市场、家庭结构和儿童结局的影响。因此，这些项目对经济发展的真正影响仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。该项目涉及收集现有调查中的所有变量，按县跨年匹配调查，并创建一个计算机化的信息数据库。然后，这些数据将用于估计第十条在促进妇女经济地位提高方面的重要性，特别是非洲裔美国人和白色妇女之间经济成果的趋同。未来对这些数据的研究将探讨计划生育服务在改变儿童结局、家庭结构以及妇女越来越多地参与美国劳动力市场的后果方面的重要性。

Examining the importance of fertility control is fundamental for understanding the origins of recent social and labor market changes. An analysis the federal government's involvement in local family planning projects places current experience in historical context and, in this manner, informs the present policy debate. Though the federal government has played a pivotal role in subsidizing family planning since the War on Poverty, the impact of these policies on women's participation and economic equality have been under-researched. Instead, research in economics has focused on the effects of abortion, which was legalized at least ten years after the introduction of the first family planning programs. Comparatively little systematic, econometric research seeks to identify the effect of birth control and birth control policy on women's rapid integration into the workforce and, by extension, the impact of this transition on labor markets, household structures and children's outcomes. As a result, the true impact of these programs on the evolution of the economy remains an open question.The project involves collecting all of the variables from existing surveys, matching the surveys by county across years, and creating a computerized database of this information. These data will then be used to estimate the importance of Title X in promoting the economic advancement of women and specifically the convergence in economic outcomes between African American and white women. Future research with this data will address the importance of family planning services in changing child outcomes, family structures, as well as the consequences of women's growing participation for U.S. labor markets.